Former Indiana basketball players say team doctor sexually abused them with unnecessary prostate exams

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Three erstwhile members of the Indiana men's hoops team person accused erstwhile squad doc Bradford Bomba Sr., 88, of sexually abusing them during their playing days.

Haris Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller primitively filed a suit against Bomba successful October, and John Flowers joined the suit this week.

Flowers, who played for the Hoosiers successful 1981 and 1982, said helium was taxable to astatine slightest 2 unnecessary prostate exams.

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Longtime trainer Tim Garl is present listed arsenic a defendant, arsenic Flowers said Garl was alert of Bomba's "invasive, harassing, and demeaning integer rectal examinations."

"After his archetypal physical, Flowers's teammates told him helium had 'passed' Dr. Bomba, Sr.'s 'test,' and that helium would not person to acquisition a integer rectal introspection again," the suit states, via CBS Sports. "Garl laughed astatine Flowers and his freshman teammates and made jokes astatine their disbursal regarding the integer rectal examinations they endured."

The assemblage officially declined remark but sent a statement from September that said the schoolhouse was conducting its ain autarkic reappraisal connected the matter.

The players' attorney, Kathleen Delaney, said Bomba whitethorn person sexually abused astatine slightest 100 antheral athletes during his clip astatine the school. Neither Garl nor Bomba's lawyer responded to a petition for comment.

Bomba pleaded the 5th during a deposition past month.

Mujezinovic and Miller, who played nether manager Bobby Knight successful the 1990s, besides alleged that Bomba conducted prostate exams that were not necessary.

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"Dr. Bomba, Sr.’s regular intersexual assaults were openly discussed by the Hoosier men’s hoops players successful the locker country successful the beingness of IU employees, including adjunct coaches, diversion trainers, and different Hoosier men’s hoops staff," the suit said, via NBC News.

"I’m lasting up for each student-athletes who person suffered abuse," Mujezinovic said successful a statement. "I anticipation that much of our erstwhile teammates volition talk retired and stock their stories publicly."

"I volition ne'er recognize wherefore IU enactment did thing to support america from what I present recognize was intersexual abuse," Miller said.

Added Flowers, "I americium arrogant to basal up connected behalf of my erstwhile teammates and different IU hoops players to question justness for the intersexual maltreatment we endured arsenic members of the Hoosiers."

Bomba was employed by the assemblage from 1962 to 1970, and again from 1979 until the precocious '90s.

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