Three former members of the Indiana men’s basketball team have accused former team doctor Bradford Bomba Sr., 88, of sexually abusing them during their playing days.
Haris Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller originally filed a lawsuit against Bomba in October, and John Flowers joined the lawsuit this week.
Flowers, who played for the Hoosiers in 1981 and 1982, said he underwent at least two unnecessary prostate exams.
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Veteran trainer Tim Garl is now listed as a defendant, as Flowers said Garl was aware of Bomba’s “invasive, harassing and degrading digital rectal examinations.”
“After his first physical examination, Flowers’ colleagues told him that he had ‘passed’ Dr. Bomba, Sr.’s ‘test,’ and that he would not have to undergo a digital rectal examination again,” the lawsuit states, via CBS Sports. “Garl laughed at Flowers and his fellow freshmen and joked at their expense about the digital rectal exams they had to endure.”
The university officially declined to comment, but sent a statement in September that said the school was conducting its own independent review into the matter.
The players’ attorney, Kathleen Delaney, said Bomba may have sexually abused at least 100 male athletes during his time at the school. Neither Garl nor Bomba’s lawyer responded to a request for comment.
Bomba alleged the fifth argument during a deposition last month.
Mujezinovic and Miller, who played for coach Bobby Knight in the 1990s, also alleged that Bomba performed prostate exams that were not necessary.
The IU logo on a basketball during a Hoosiers game against the Michigan State Spartans on January 22, 2023 at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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“Dr. Bomba, Sr.’s routine sexual assaults were openly discussed by Hoosier men’s basketball players in the locker room in the presence of IU employees, including assistant coaches, athletic trainers and other Hoosier men’s basketball personnel,” it says the demand. , via NBC News.
“I stand up for all student-athletes who have suffered abuse,” Mujezinovic said in a statement. “I hope more of our former colleagues speak out and share their stories publicly.”
“I will never understand why IU leadership did nothing to protect us from what I now understand was sexual abuse,” Miller said.
The Indiana Hoosiers logo during the Empire Classic game on November 19, 2023 at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Bomba worked at the university from 1962 to 1970, and again from 1979 to the late 1990s.
