Butch Carter was the fifth man to join the lawsuit<\/a> as he alleged that Dr. Bradford Bomba \u201cput on gloves, lubed his fingers and told Carter to bend over the table\u201d before Bomba then inserted at least one finger into Carter\u2019s rectum.<\/p>\nFormer Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight, right, talks with Dr. Brad Bomba at a fund-raising dinner for the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in Indianapolis on Dec. 17, 2009. ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n
Bomba worked as a team physician for nearly 30 years under head coach Bobby Knight and head athletic trainer Tim Garl. <\/p>\n
Knight died in 2023, while Bomba passed away last month.<\/p>\n
Like the allegations Carter has made, the former players accuse Bomba of routinely giving rectal exams during physicals despite medical guidance not making any recommendations for them. <\/p>\n
The players allege that Knight and other school officials heard player complaints and knew of Bomba\u2019s alleged actions but did not stop anything.<\/p>\n
The players also allege that Knight and Garl continuously ordered players to continue seeing Bomba despite their complaints.<\/p>\n
Legendary head coach Bobby Knight was Indiana\u2019s coach at the time of the alleged sexual misconduct. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The attorneys for Garl, who is a defendant in the case, argue that complaints are \u201cdecades too late\u201d and that Garl did not relevantly supervise Bomba in regard to the alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n
Before his death, Bomba was deposed last year and invoked his Fifth Amendment right, refusing to answer 45 questions.<\/p>\n
An Indiana-commissioned investigation found last month that Bomba\u2019s rectal examinations were done in a \u201cclinically appropriate manner\u201d and there was \u201cno evidence to suggest that Dr. Bomba achieved sexual gratification.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Knick Butch Carter is one of the players alleging sexual
misconduct against Dr. Bradford Bomba. NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
The ex-players have disputed those findings, however, as their attorney said two of her clients\u2019 stories contradict Bomba\u2019s actions not being sexual.<\/p>\n
One man said Bomba \u201cfondled his genitalia\u201d during a physical and another claimed he was given a rectal exam by Bomba when he was still a minor in high school.<\/p>\n
While the lawsuit will face its challenges because of Bomba\u2019s recent death and the state of Indiana\u2019s two-year statute of limitations for bringing sexual assault claims in civil litigation, the former Hoosiers are motivated to share their stories.<\/p>\n
Bobby Knight (left) and Indiana won the national championship in 1976, during Dr. Bradford Bomba\u2019s tenure. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI have two sons who are the same age that I was when that happened to me,\u201d Haris Mujezinovic, one of the plaintiffs from the initial lawsuit, wrote in an email to ESPN. \u201cAt the time I viewed myself as an adult, but now I realize, looking at my own kids, how young and powerless me and my teammates actually were.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe adults within the basketball program who were entrusted with our care knew what was happening to us. They joked about it and let it continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of former Indiana men\u2019s basketball players alleging sexual misconduct by a former team doctor is now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,17425,217,6523,231,772,1544,16063,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-75525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bob-knight","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-indiana-hoosiers","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-sexual-misconduct","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114623290120413313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}