Former NBA participant and coach claims intercourse abuse by Indiana College crew physician

Former NBA participant and coach Butch Carter claims in an amended lawsuit filed Thursday that he was sexually abused by the physician for the Indiana College basketball crew when he was on the squad.

Carter, who went on to play for the New York Knicks, the Los Angeles Lakers and different NBA groups and was head coach of the Toronto Raptors, is the fifth former Indiana College basketball participant to say he complained to legendary coach Bobby Knight about Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr.’s performing pointless rectal examinations on younger, wholesome gamers.

His account was included this month in an amended grievance filed in U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of Indiana that accused college officers of failing to guard student-athletes from Bomba.

Carter is now a plaintiff within the lawsuit in opposition to the Indiana College trustees and longtime males’s basketball coach Tim Garl, who’s accused of getting identified concerning the sexual abuse complaints however finished nothing about it, in line with the lawsuit, which was initially filed in October with two plaintiffs.

Carter and the others are suing underneath Title IX, a federal legislation that requires all schools and universities that obtain federal funds to place safeguards in place to guard college students from sexual predators.

The go well with alleges that in 1979 on the college’s Meeting Corridor, Bomba “placed on gloves, lubed his fingers and instructed Carter to bend over the desk” earlier than he inserted not less than one among his fingers into Carter’s anus.

Carter, 66, who performed on the boys’s basketball crew from 1976 to 1980, stated no different physician had ever carried out a rectal examination on him as a part of a bodily examination.

Based on the go well with, not lengthy afterward, Carter complained to Knight, who led the Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000; to crew coach Bob Younger; and to George Taliaferro, who labored within the workplace of the college president, “about what Dr. Bomba, Sr. had finished to me.”

Carter stated within the lawsuit that Younger instructed him it was a part of a standard examination.

In an earlier account included within the lawsuit, an nameless accuser, now identified to be Carter, stated that earlier than observe began in his senior yr, he instructed Knight he by no means needed to see Bomba once more for medical care and that Knight responded: “You’re going to take a bodily.” Carter stated he instructed Knight that he was going to see Dr. Robert Miller, after which Knight “left it alone.”

Within the earlier account, Carter stated that when he instructed his mentor, Taliaferro, the primary African American soccer participant at Indiana College, that Bomba had “put his finger up my ass,” Taliaferro responded, “Bomba is a bit of s—.” Knight, Taliaferro and Younger are all deceased.

Carter stated within the lawsuit that in his senior yr, he complained a number of instances to Knight about Bomba’s abusive conduct throughout bodily exams with athletes and that he fought with Knight a number of instances about gamers being close to Bomba however that to his information, Knight took no motion to deal with his complaints.

Within the lawsuit, Carter stated that when he performed within the NBA, he acquired annual bodily examinations from crew docs on a routine foundation and that just one, throughout a coaching camp, concerned a rectal examination as a result of he had a swollen prostate on the time.

Carter stated in his affidavit that he complained about Bomba to high officers within the athletic division years earlier than the 4 different plaintiffs — John Flowers, Haris Mujezinovic, Charlie Miller and Larry Richardson Jr. — had been allegedly abused.

“I’m proud to come back ahead and I hope that different IU basketball gamers will come ahead to share their experiences publicly,” Carter stated in a press release Thursday.

Bomba, 88, couldn’t instantly be reached for remark at numbers listed for him. Mark Bode, a spokesperson for the college, and William Beggs, Bomba’s lawyer, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

Bode beforehand referred NBC Information to a press release in September that stated the college had employed a non-public legislation agency to conduct an unbiased evaluation of a former student-athlete’s allegations that he was subjected to inappropriate prostate and rectal exams throughout annual physicals with Bomba.