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Other former male basketball players for the University of Indiana came forward by showing a sexual fault by a former team doctor, while declaring that school officials, including the head coach of the late Bobby Knight, were aware of the situation.
Last fall, the former players of Hoosier Haris Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller filed a complaint against Bradford Bomba Sr., who died last month. The costume said that the two had been sexually mistreated by Bomba during their time to play for Indiana.
This prosecution, which was filed in October, now has five ex-athletes appointed, while 10 additional men plan to continue a dispute against Indiana, by ESPN.
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A general view of the Indiana Hoosiers Shorts logo during the basketball match College Empire Classic against Connecticut Huskies on November 19, 2023, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Rich Graessle / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“I have two sons who are the same age as me when it happened to me,” said Mujezinovic, who played for the Hoosiers in the late 1990s, in an e-mail in Espn. “At the time, I considered myself an adult, but now I realize, looking at my own children, how young and helpless my teammates were.
“The adults of the basketball program who were responsible for us knew what happened to us. They joked about it and let him continue.”
Bomba regularly gave male athletes rectal examinations during their physique despite no medical recommendation to do so, according to the trial. Bomba worked as a male basketball doctor for almost 30 years.
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The longtime coach, Tim Garl, was listed as a defendant in January after another player, John Flowers, joined the trial. Flowers said Garl was aware of “invasive, harassing and degrading digital rectal exams”.
“After his first physique, the Flowers teammates told him that he had” passed “Dr. Bomba, the” test “of SR. and that he would not have to undergo a digital rectal exam again,” said the trial. “Garl lasted with Flowers and his first -year teammates and made jokes at their expense concerning the digital rectal exams they have endured.”
The legendary university basketball coach Bobby Knight died in 2023. (AP)
The players would have complained about the exams, some of which said they wanted a different doctor to look at them in the future. However, Knight and Garl continued to see players see Bomba.
Another player, Butch Carter, who played for Indiana in the late 1970s, wrote in a letter he told Knight that he had never wanted to see Bomba again. The letter is in the trial, although Carter is not part of the trial.
An external survey was carried out to deepen the allegations, and he found that rectal exams are a normal part of a physique. Indiana also published a statement in September 2024 saying that they would make an independent review.
The Indiana hired the law firm Jones Day to conduct the investigation, which involved speaking with “100 individuals”, going through “10,000 emails” and examining “more than 100,000 pages of physical documents covering six decades”, according to the report published on April 25.
With the death of Bomba last month, and the external investigation eliminating him from sexual misconduct, the legal path of these players will be difficult.
A general vision of the IU logo on the Adidas official basketball balls, as we can see when the Indiana Hoosiers played against the Spartans of the State of Michigan on January 22, 2023, in the assembly in Bloomington, Indiana. (Brian Spurlock / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
But Michelle Simpson Tuegel, who represents the 10 men prepared to submit their trial, two of her clients have stories contradict these conclusions, saying that Bomba’s actions were not sexual, by ESPN. One of the men, who played in the late 1990s for the Hoosiers, said Bomba “caressed his genitals” during a physique.
“My ten customers and many other players from the 1970s to the 1990s were subjected to completely useless penetrating exams and other forms of sexual misconduct by the doctor of the Brad Bomba SR. team for his own sexual satisfaction,” said Simpson Tuegel in a declaration to PK Press Club Digital. “Since these men courageously began to manifest itself last fall, the University of Indiana tried several times to avoid responsibility, wrongly affirming that what happened to them is not abuse. This should be decided by an Indiana jury rather than by the university and its selected private lawyer’s office.
The University of Indiana told PK Press Club Digital that it does not comment on the dispute. In addition, the university highlighted the results of the Jones Day survey as a reference.
