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More erstwhile men’s hoops players for Indiana University person travel guardant alleging intersexual misconduct by a erstwhile squad physician, portion stating schoolhouse officials, including the precocious caput manager Bobby Knight, were alert of the situation.
Last fall, erstwhile Hoosier players Haris Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller filed a suit against Bradford Bomba Sr., who died past month. The suit claimed the 2 were sexually abused by Bomba during their clip playing for Indiana.
That lawsuit, which was filed successful October, present has 5 ex-athletes named successful it, portion 10 further men are readying to prosecute litigation against Indiana, per ESPN.
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A wide presumption of the Indiana Hoosiers shorts logo during the Empire Classic assemblage hoops crippled against the Connecticut Huskies connected Nov. 19, 2023, astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York, NY. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
"I person 2 sons who are the aforesaid property that I was erstwhile that happened to me," Mujezinovic, who played for the Hoosiers successful the precocious 1990s, said successful an email to ESPN. "At the time, I viewed myself arsenic an adult, but present I realize, looking astatine my ain kids, however young and powerless maine and my teammates really were.
"The adults wrong the basketball program who were entrusted with our attraction knew what was happening to us. They joked astir it and fto it continue."
Bomba routinely gave antheral athletes rectal exams during their physicals contempt nary aesculapian recommendations to bash so, according to the lawsuit. Bomba worked arsenic the men’s hoops doc for astir 30 years.
Longtime trainer Tim Garl was listed arsenic a suspect successful January aft different erstwhile player, John Flowers, joined the lawsuit. Flowers said Garl was alert of Bomba's "invasive, harassing, and demeaning integer rectal examinations."
"After his archetypal physical, Flowers's teammates told him helium had 'passed' Dr. Bomba, Sr.'s 'test,' and that helium would not person to acquisition a integer rectal introspection again," the suit states. "Garl laughed astatine Flowers and his freshman teammates and made jokes astatine their disbursal regarding the integer rectal examinations they endured."
Bobby Knight was 1 of the top assemblage hoops coaches of all-time. (AP)
Players allegedly complained astir the exams, immoderate of which said they wished to person a antithetic doc look astatine them successful the future. However, Knight and Garl continued to person players spot Bomba.
Another player, Butch Carter, who played for Indiana successful the precocious 1970s, wrote successful a missive that helium told Knight helium ne'er wanted to spot Bomba again. The missive is successful the lawsuit, though Carter is not a portion of the lawsuit.
An extracurricular probe was done to look further into the allegations, and it recovered that rectal exams are a mean portion of a physical. Indiana besides released a connection successful September 2024 saying they would beryllium conducting an autarkic review.
Indiana hired the instrumentality steadfast Jones Day to behaviour the investigation, which progressive speaking with "100 individuals," going done "10,000 emails," and reviewing "more than 100,000 pages of carnal documents spanning six decades," according to the study released connected April 25.
With Bomba’s decease past month, and the extracurricular probe clearing him of intersexual misconduct, the ineligible way for these players volition beryllium a hard one.
A wide presumption of the IU logo connected the authoritative Adidas basketballs arsenic seen erstwhile the Indiana Hoosiers played against the Michigan State Spartans connected Jan. 22, 2023, astatine Assembly Hall successful Bloomington, Indiana. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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But Michelle Simpson Tuegel, who is representing the 10 men prepared to record their lawsuit, states 2 of her clients person stories contradicting those findings, saying Bomba’s actions were not sexual, per ESPN. One of the men, who played successful the precocious 1990s for the Hoosiers, claimed Bomba "fondled his genitalia" during a physical.
Indiana University told Fox News Digital it does not remark connected litigation. Additionally, the assemblage pointed to the Jones Day probe results arsenic reference.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
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