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More Former Male Basketball Players Indiana University School officials, including late head coach Bobby Knight, say they know the situation as they alleged sexual misconduct by former team doctors.
Last fall, former Hoosier players Harris Mujezinovich and Charlie Miller filed a lawsuit against Bradford Bomba Senior, who passed away last month. The lawsuit alleges that he was sexually abused by Bomba while playing for Indiana.
The lawsuit, filed in October, currently has five former athletes named, but 10 additional men plan to pursue a lawsuit against Indiana. All ESPN.
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A general view of the Indiana Hoosiers Shorts logo during an Empire Classic College basketball game against the Connecticut Huskies on November 19, 2023 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“I have two sons who are the same age as when I happened,” Mujezinovic, who played for the Hoosiers in the late 1990s, said in an email to ESPN. “At the time I thought of myself as an adult, but now I realize I see how young and helpless my kids, me and my teammates are in fact.
“Adults in the middle Basketball Program Those who were entrusted with our care knew what was going on with us. They joked about it and let it continue. ”
According to the lawsuit, Bomba routinely gave male athletes a rectal examination between their bodies despite no medical recommendations. Bomba worked as a men’s basketball doctor for almost 30 years.
Longtime trainer Tim Girl was listed as a defendant in January after another former player, John Flowers, joined the lawsuit. Flowers said Girl knows Bomba’s “invasive, harassing, despicable digital rectal tests.”
“After his first body, Flowers’ teammates told him he would “pass” Dr. Bomba’s ‘test’ and not need to have another digital rectal test,” the lawsuit states. “Girl laughed at Hana and his freshman teammates and joked at their expense regarding the digital rectal test they endured.”
Bobby Knight was one of the best college basketball coaches of all time. (AP)
The player is said to have complained about the exam, some of whom said they wanted another doctor to look at him in the future. However, Knight and Girl continued to let the players see Bomba.
Butch Carter, another player who played for Indiana in the late 1970s, wrote in a letter that he told Knight he never wanted to see Bomba again. Carter is not part of the lawsuit, but the letter is in the lawsuit.
An external investigation was conducted to further consider the allegations and found that the rectal test is a normal part of the body. Indiana issued a statement in September 2024 saying they would be like that We will conduct an independent review.
Indiana has hired law firm Jonesday to review “more than 100,000 pages of physical documents,” passing “100 individuals,” and “10,000 emails,” according to a report released on April 25th.
With Bomba’s death last month and external investigations that clear him of sexual misconduct, the legal path for these players will be difficult.
The general view of the official adidas basketball IU logo as seen when the Indiana Hoosiers faced the Michigan Spartan at the Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana on January 22, 2023. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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But Michelle Simpson Twegel, who represents 10 men ready to file a lawsuit, says two clients have stories that contradict those findings, saying that Bomba’s actions on a per-ESPN are not sexual. One man who played for the Hoosiers in the late 1990s claimed that Bomba physically “loved his genitals.”
Indiana University told Fox News Digital it had not comment on the lawsuit. Additionally, the university pointed out the Jonesday findings as reference.
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