Ex-Knick Butch Carter joins lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by Indiana University doctor

Former Knicks guard Butch Carter joined a lawsuit accusing former Indiana men’s basketball physician Dr.Bradford Bomba of sexual abuse.Carter became the fifth former Hoosiers player to make the allegation with his sworn testimony submitted Thursday.The former Indiana captain claims that in 1979, Bomba “put on gloves, lubed his fingers and told Carter to bend over the table” before inserting at least one finger into his rectum. Carter, now 66, complained to then-coach Bobby Knight, trainer Bob Young and George Taliaferro, who worked in the office of the university president about the incident, which was the first time he’d ever received a rectal exam as part of a physical exam.His previous physicals at IU had been performed by Dr.

Robert Miller.“At no time before the Dr.Bomba Sr.

experience did any other doctor perform a rectal examination on me, including in high school,” Carter said in his testimony.“Dr.

Miller never penetrated my anus with his fingers during my prior physical examinations with him at IU.”When Carter told Knight he no longer wanted to see Bomba for medical care, the surly coach told him he was “going to take a physical.”Despite his multiple complaints against Bomba, Carter said he was unaware of any actions taken.Bomba, 88, sat for a deposition on Dec.4 and invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 45 times.Carter’s account joins that of John Flowers, Haris Mujezinovic, Charlie Miller and Larry Richardson Jr., with current men’s basketball trainer Tim Garl and the Indiana University trustees as defendants. Carter played at Indiana from 1976-80 before being drafted by the Lakers in the second round of the 1980 NBA Draft.

The Ohio native played in the league for six years, including three with the Indiana Pacers and 74 games with the Knicks from 1984-86.In 1992, he joined the NBA’s coaching ranks, beginning as an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks before joining the Toronto Raptors staff in 1997-98.In his second se...