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

Three former members Indiana men’s basketball team accused former team doctor Bradford Bomba Sr., 88, of sexually abusing them during their playing days.

Haris Mujezinović and Charlie Miller originally filed suit against Bomba in October, and John Flowers joined the suit 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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Longtime trainer Tim Garl is now listed as a defendant, as Flowers said Garl was aware of Bomba’s “invasive, disturbing and humiliating digital rectal exams.”

“After his initial exam, Flowers’ teammates told him that he had ‘passed’ Dr. Bomba Sr.’s ‘test,’ and that he would no longer have to undergo a digital rectal exam,” the lawsuit states, via CBS Sports . “Garl laughed at Flowers and his newly minted teammates and made jokes about the digital rectal exams they submitted.”

The university officially declined comment, but sent one statement from September who said the school is conducting its own independent review into the matter.

The player’s attorney, Kathleen Delaney, said Bomba may have sexually assaulted at least 100 male athletes during his time at the school. Neither Garl nor Bomba’s attorney responded to a request for comment.

Bomba declared himself the fifth over the past month.

Mujezinovic and Miller, who played under coach Bobby Knight in the 1990s, also claimed that Bomba conducted prostate examinations which were not necessary.

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“Dr. Bombo, 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 basketball personnel,” the lawsuit states. , via NBC News.

“I stand up for all student athletes who were abused,” Mujezinović said in a statement. “I hope more of our former teammates will speak up and share their stories publicly.”

“I will never understand why IU leadership did nothing to protect us from what I now understand to be sexual harassment,” Miller said.

Flowers added, “I am proud to stand up on behalf of my former teammates and other IU basketball players to seek justice for the sexual abuse we suffered as members of the Hoosiers.”

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Bomba was employed at the university from 1962 to 1970, and again from 1979 to the late 90s.

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