RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — New lawsuit information has surfaced after more former students claim that an ex-athletic trainer at North Carolina State University sexually abused them.

Attorney Kerstin Walker Sutton told CBS 17 that 14 male student athletes have accused Robert Murphy, the university's former director of sports medicine.

In a statement, Sutton said that together the former student athletes "hope to encourage other men abused by Rob Murphy at State to do the same, knowing it wasn’t just them, they did nothing wrong, and NCSU should have protected them."

The federal lawsuit was initially filed by Benjamin Locke, a former N.C. State soccer player, in August 2022. In the suit, he claimed Murphy inappropriately touched his genitals during roughly 75 to 100 massages—that he later sai

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