More former Indiana basketball players allege sexual misconduct by physician | College basketball
More than 15 players in Indiana basketball in Indiana claim inappropriate sexual behavior by a former team doctor, and they claim that university officials – including The late coach Bobby Knight – I know the behavior of the doctor.
Two Hoosiers filed a lawsuit against the school last autumn, but the number of complainants has grown to five with 10 others expecting litigation, according to ESPN on Tuesday.
In the existing lawsuit, former players claim that Dr. Bradford Pumba, who died last month at the age of 89, regularly conducted straight tests on male athletes during physical athletes despite the fact that medical guidance was not recommended for men of the college agent. He argued that this was a sexual misconduct, and he claimed that university officials were aware of this behavior, yet he failed to stop him.
The players said they raised complaints, and some even asked a different doctor. However, the athletes claimed that Knight, who died in 2023, and the head of sports coach, Tim Jarle, ordered the players to continue to see Pumba.
Jarle, who was named as a defendant in the lawsuit, was a sports coach from 1981 to this year, Matthew Indiana He said he would not renew his contract. Garl’s lawyers, with the focus that the coach did not supervise Pumba, indicated that the rectal tests were a natural part of my body.
During his first deposition a year ago, Pumba refused to answer 45 questions by calling the right to the fifth amendment against self -criminalization.
Last month, Indiana assigned an investigation and found that the digital rectal tests in Bomba had been conducted in a “clinical” way, adding that “there is no evidence indicating that Dr. Bomba has achieved sexual gratification.”
However, Michelle Simpson, Tojel – who represents a group of 10 players preparing to file a lawsuit – said that two of its customers contradict this conclusion. One of the individual said that Pumba was “amazing the genitals” during physical physicalness.
Some medical experts have indicated that it is uncommon for the doctor to perform a rectum examination without any date or symptoms. These procedures are generally used to examine the prostate and other cancers. In the nineties, the American Cancer Society recommended men at the age of 50 and above.
A spokesman for the University of Indiana refused to comment on the case, citing the suspended litigation.
