Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic descriptions of domestic violence and sexual assault. If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault or domestic violence, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline. 1-800-656-4673 or domestic violence hotline 1-800-799-7233.
Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was sued Tuesday for sexual assault by a California woman who reported him for sexual assault last year. A copy of the lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles can be found at sports illustratedserves as a counterclaim to the defamation lawsuit Bauer filed against the woman in April.
In the filing, the woman said that Bauer had chosen to “exercise her legal rights by speaking to the appropriate authorities about what happened,” thus allowing Bauer to “file a meritless lawsuit against her.” We are using his considerable resources to
“Bauer’s disgraceful message is clear: Abused women should keep quiet because neither the police nor the courts can protect them from the scorned rich,” the filing said. .
For “financial damage, loss of income, and other damages,” the woman is seeking punitive and exemplary damages from Bauer “based on evidence at trial.”
The woman’s counterclaim contains many graphic details she first described in court last year, when she said Bauer had sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions, on April 22 and May 16. claim. She choked her unconscious and when she regained consciousness found Bauer penetrating her anus. She said it caused her to “experience severe pain” as well as cause her to bleed.According to her account, Bauer stopped when she was asked.
In a second incident, the woman states that Bauer choked her in the same manner, knocked her unconscious again, and began punching her in the face with a closed fist, blackening her eyes before causing her to choke a second time. . She woke up in “severe pain” and Bauer repeatedly punched her in the vagina, groin and buttocks.
The woman said she was hospitalized after the May 16 incident. Bauer said she had consensual “rough sex” under “established rules and boundaries” and publicly denied that she beat or assaulted the woman “in any way”. Did.
However, the lawsuit alleges details of a conversation between the woman and Bauer from a call made with members of the Pasadena Police Department after the May 16 incident. , Bauer “did not object to punching” women in the face or around the vagina. Bauer also said he should have been “clear” with the woman about the level of physicality in the encounter and was on the “same page”. increase.
According to the filing, when asked how many times he hit a woman during a call with police, Bauer said, “I’m not sure. Not a lot.”
In February, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced that Bauer would not face criminal charges following an investigation that began in August 2021.
In August of the same year, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman reversed the temporary restraining order the woman had sought against Bauer, denying the five-year order, calling her allegations “serious.” misleading”.
Bauer was placed on administrative leave by Major League Baseball on July 2, 2021. On April 29, 2022, after investigating a woman’s account that Bauer had been having a sexual relationship with, the league officially announced that he would be a regular in his 324 games of the season, meaning his two full-season appearances. I have issued a suspension. she hit her The suspension is the longest issued by the league for sexual or domestic violence. Bauer is appealing her suspension.
As part of the investigation, MLB interviewed Bauer for several days, according to SI’s Stephanie Apstein. Washington Post, the league also investigated Bauer for other sexual assault allegations. An Ohio woman said Bauer sexually assaulted her in 2017. Position Reported last August. The woman said she sought a temporary protection order against him in 2020, which was granted and dropped six weeks later.
Hours after the league announced its suspension, Position A third woman, also from Ohio, published an article in which she said she was sexually assaulted by Bauer in 2013, when he was a minor leaguer in the Guardians system.she said Position After agreeing to stop choking her before passing out, Bauer “frequently ignored her warnings,” “slapping her without her consent, and slapping her while she was unconscious.” After two previous women shared similar stories, she chose to speak to the newspaper.
Bauer denied the allegations made by both Ohio women.
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