Former NBA player and coach Butch Carter alleges in an amendment lawsuit filed Thursday that he was sexually abused by a doctor on the Indiana University basketball team while he was on the team.
Carter, who played for the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and other NBA teams and served as head coach for the Toronto Raptors, is a fifth former Indiana University basketball player and says Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr. complained about unnecessary judicial testing at Young Healthy Player.
His account was included in an amended complaint filed this month in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, accusing school officials of failing to protect student-athletes from Bunka.
Carter is now a plaintiff in the lawsuit against Indiana University councillor and longtime boys basketball trainer Tim Girl, who was aware of the sexual abuse complaints but has been accused of not doing anything about it.
Carter and others are suing under Title IX, a federal law that requires federal funds to receive to protect students from sexual predators.
The lawsuit alleges in the university’s Congress Hall in 1979, Bomba “woman wearing gloves, lubricating his fingers and telling Carter to bend over the table.”
Carter, 66, who played for the men’s basketball team from 1976 to 1980, said he never had a rectal test on him as part of his physical examination.
Shortly afterwards, Carter complained to the Knight, who led the Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000, according to the lawsuit. To team trainer Bob Young. And then, “What Dr. Bomba did to me,” he told George Taliaferro, who worked in the university president’s office.
Carter said in the lawsuit that Young told him it was part of a regular exam.
An anonymous accuser, now known as Carter, on an earlier account included in the lawsuit, told Knight that before practice began in fourth grade, he never wanted to see Bomba again for medical care, and Knight replied, “You’re going to take your body.” Carter said he told Knight he would meet Dr. Robert Miller.
In a previous description, Carter told Taliaferro, the mentor of Indiana University’s first African-American footballer, that when Bomba “slept my fingers over my ass,” Taliaferro said, “Bomba is part of the s.” Knight, Taliaferro and Young are all dead.
In the lawsuit, Carter said during his fourth year he complained to Knight about Bomba’s abusive behaviour during physical examinations with athletes, and that as far as he knows, Knight did not take action to deal with his complaints.
In the lawsuit, Carter said he routinely had annual physical examinations from team doctors when he played in the NBA, and only one during training camp had a rectal examination because he had a swollen prostate at the time.
In the affidavit, Carter said he complained to top athletic officials about Bomba a few years ago that the other four plaintiffs.
“I’m proud to be coming forward and I hope that other IU basketball players will move forward to share their experiences publicly,” Carter said in a statement Thursday.
The 88-year-old Bomba could not immediately contact him for comment on the numbers listed for him. University spokesman Mark Bord and Bombba’s lawyer William Beggs did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The board previously featured NBC News in a statement in September. It said the university hired a private law firm to conduct an independent review of the former student-athlete allegations that it was exposed to inappropriate prostate and rectal testing during its annual physics with Bomba.
