More than 15 former Indiana men’s basketball players accused a former team doctor of unfair sexual conduct, and they claim that university officials – including the late coach Bobby Knight – knew about the behavior of the doctor.
According to ESPN on Tuesday, two former Hosiers sued the final decline on the school, but the number of complainants with one and 10 has increased to five with the expectation of chasing litigation.
In the current trial, former players allege that Dr. Bradford Bomba, who died at the age of 89 last month, regularly demonstrated a rectal examination on male athletes during physical physicals, despite the fact that medical guidance did not recommend him for college-age men. The lawsuit argued that this was the amount of sexual misconduct, and claimed that university officials knew about this behavior, yet failed to stop it.
The players said that they raised complaints, some requested a separate doctor. However, athletes alleged that the night, who died in 2023, and head athletic trainer Tim Garl directed the players to continue to look at Bomba.
Garl, nominated as a defendant in the trial, was the leading athletic trainer from 1981 to this year, when Indiana said it would not renew their contract. Garl’s lawyers stressed the fact that the trainer did not monitor Bomba, said that the rectal examination was a common part of a physical.
A year ago, during his initial statement, Bomba refused to answer 45 questions by implementing his fifth amendment right against self-upliftment.
Last month, Indiana initiated an investigation into which it was found that Bomba’s digital rectal examinations were “clinically appropriately”, saying that “Dr. Bomba had no evidence to suggest this to get sexual satisfaction.”
However, Mitchell Simpson Tugel – representing a group of 10 players who are preparing to file a suit – said that two of his customers oppose that discovery. One person said that Bomba “loved his genitals” during a physical.
Some medical experts indicated that it was uncommon for a physician to demonstrate any rectal examination without history or symptoms. These processes are usually used to screen for prostate and other cancer. In the 1990s, the American Cancer Society recommended him for men who were 50 and older.
A spokesman at the University of Indiana refused to comment on the trial, citing pending litigation.
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