A law firm hired by the University of Indiana has concluded that the former doctor of the Bradford Basketball team Bombo Mr. did not acted “in bad faith or with an inappropriate purpose” when he performed rectal exams in hundreds of young players during routine physicists.
But the medical experts caused by the Jones Day law firm to help conduct an independent investigation into the accusations against Bomba wrote that “it was rare” for doctors to perform invasive examinations such as this in “university student athletes without pertinent history of complaints.”
Even so, experts wrote in the 874 -page report, the pump method to do these exams was “professional and clinical.”
“We did not discover any evidence: no witness interview, players account, documentation or evidence about any general predilection of Dr. Bomba, which indicated that Dr. Bomb had any sexual purpose or obtained any sexual gratification of administering the dres,” says the report, using the acronym for the rectal digital exams.
IU hired Jones Day in September to investigate the accusations against the retired doctor 88 years after a former player named Haris Mujazinovic sent to school a letter accusing Bomba to perform unnecessary rectal exams in brief young athletes and say that school officials did nothing to stop it.
“The report did not help me understand the justification of the actions of Dr. Bomba Mr. or for the failure of the IU to act,” said Mujazinovic in a statement published by his lawyers Kathleen Delaney, Matthew Gutwein and Alexander Pantos after the Jones Day report was published on Thursday. “It seems to me that IU remained silent at the expense of me and the other players.”
Mujazinovic is one of Indiana’s five players, including the NBA Single Player and the former coach of the Toronto Raptors, Butch Carter, who demand the trusts of the University and the former Athletics Coach Tim Garl for allegedly ignoring the warnings about bomb, who alleges performed rectal exams medically unnecessarily on young men.
Delaney, in an email on Friday at NBC News, said: “This report helps our litigation and continues to look for the case with vigor.”
“The Jones Day Report is defective in many aspects, but it unequivocally confirms that Dr. Bomba, Mr. abused IU athletes for decades and that the main athletic coach of the University knew at that time and did nothing to stop it,” Delany wrote. “Even the contracted experts Jones Day promised, two out of three, did not support Dr. Bomba’s rectal exams as” medically appropriate. ”
Delaney said Jones’ Day investigators did not interview Bomba and said that in December the retired doctor invoked his right of the fifth amendment against the dozens of self -inculpations during a deposition for demand.
Jones’ Day report, added Delaney, also called Garl’s Behavior “non -professional” for “irritating” players about rectal exams at the hands of a bomb.
Garl, who had been the main male basketball coach at school since 1981, was informed last month that IU would not renew his contract.
NBC News has communicated with the bomb lawyers, Garl and IU spokesman Mark Bode, to comment on the findings in the Jones Day Report.
Bomba, which is not accused, provided medical attention to all its sports teams from 1962 to 1970 and was the doctor of the Hoosier male basketball team from 1979 to the end of the 1990s.
Mujazinovic and Charlie Miller, who played for the Hoosiers in the 1990s under the late and legendary coach Bob Knight, were the first of the former players to present a lawsuit in the United States district court for southern Indian stop it.
They demanded under title IX, a federal law that requires that all schools and universities that receive federal funds establish safeguards to protect students from sex -based discrimination, including sexual harassment and sexual violence.
“Dr. Bomba, Hoosier male basketball players, male basketball players in the locker room in the locker room in the presence of IU employees, including assistant coaches, athletic coaches and other male basketball staff of Hoosier,” according to the demand.
