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More former male basketball players for the University of Indiana have presented themselves claiming that a former team doctor, while declared that school officials, including the late chief coach Bobby Knight, were aware of the situation.
The past fall, former Hoosier Haris Mujazinovic and Charlie Miller players filed a lawsuit against Bradford Bomba Mr., who died last month. The demand said that the two were sexually abused by bomb during their time playing for Indiana.
That demand, which was filed in October, now has five former athletes named in it, while 10 additional men plan to look for litigation against Indiana, according to ESPN.
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A general view of the Indiana Hoosiers Shorts logo during the Empire Classic College Basketball Game against the Connecticut Huskies on November 19, 2023 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
“I have two children who are the same age when that happened to me,” said Mujazinovic, who played for the Hoosiers in the late 1990s, in an email to ESPN. “At that time, I saw myself as an adult, but now I realize, looking at my own children, how young and helpless my teammates were really.
“The adults within the basketball program that our care was entrusted to what was happening to us. They joked about it and let him continue.”
Routinely bomb gave male rectal exams during their physical exams even though there are no medical recommendations to do so, according to demand. Bomb worked as a male basketball doctor for almost 30 years.
Indiana’s former basketball players say the team doctor sexually abused them with unnecessary prostate exams
Long Data Tim Garl coach was listed as accused in January after another former player, John Flowers, joined the lawsuit. Flowers said Garl was aware of the “invasive, harassed and pump degrading.
“After his first physique, Flowers teammates told him that he had approved ” the ‘test’ of Dr. Bomba, Mr., and that he would not have to undergo a rectal digital exam again,” says the demand. “Garl laughed at Flowers and his first -year partners and joked at his coast with respect to the digital rectal exams they endured.”
Bobby Knight was one of the best university basketball coaches of all time. (AP)
The players allegedly complained about the exams, some of whom said they wanted a different doctor to look at them in the future. However, Knight and Garl continued to make the players see a bomb.
Another player, Butch Carter, who played for Indiana in the late 1970s, wrote in a letter that told Knight that he never wanted to see a bomb again. The letter is in the lawsuit, although Carter is not part of the lawsuit.
An external investigation was conducted to further analyze the accusations, and discovered that rectal exams are a normal part of a physique. Indiana also issued a statement in September 2024 saying that they would carry out an independent review.
Indiana hired the Jones Day law firm to carry out the investigation, which involved talking with “100 people”, through “10,000 emails” and reviewing “more than 100,000 pages of physical documents that cover six decades,” according to the report published on April 25.
With the death of a bomb last month, and external research cleared him of inappropriate sexual behavior, the legal path for these players will be difficult.
A general view of the IU logo in the official basketball of Adidas as seen when the Indiana Hoosiers played against the Michigan state spartans on January 22, 2023 in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
But Michelle Simpson Tuegel, who represents the 10 men prepared to present their demand, affirms that two of their clients have stories that contradict those findings, saying that the bomb actions were not sexual, according to ESPN. One of the men, who played at the end of the 1990s for the Hoosiers, said that Bomb “stroked their genitals” during a physique.
The University of Indiana told Pak Gazette Digital that he does not comment on litigation. In addition, the University pointed out the results of Jones’ Day research as a reference.
