A woman was denied a permanent restraining order against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer after she accused him of domestic violence and sexual assault.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday against the 27-year-old woman’s application, and the temporary restraining order against Bauer has been dissolved.
The woman says Bauer strangled her to death three times with her own hair and hit her in the face, buttocks and genitals during a sexual encounter earlier this year. The Pasadena Police Department (California) is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault resulting from two sexual encounters that took place between Bauer and the woman on April 21 and April 16. May.
The judge ruled that Bauer posed no threat to the woman and that her injuries were not the result of anything she verbally objected to.
Early Thursday, it was determined that Bauer would not testify at the hearing four days after his attorneys said the pitcher planned to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights if he went up to the podium.
Bauer’s lawyers have argued that the meetings were “totally consensual”, in part because the woman sent a text message to Bauer “give me all the pain” and indicated that he wanted her strangled before returning to Bauer’s house in May. But in her testimony on Wednesday, the woman said, “To me, texting doesn’t mean consent. I didn’t consent to my whole body being hurt and being hospitalized and doing things to me. when he was unconscious. That is, not consensual. “
The woman, whom ESPN does not name because she has reported being sexually assaulted, spent more than nine hours for three days testifying about what happened during the encounters and the events surrounding her.
Bauer has been on administrative leave for MLB and the Players Association since July 2 while investigators dig into the allegations. His license, which has been extended five times, expires Friday. Bauer is the highest paid player in MLB this year, earning nearly $ 40 million, and won the 2020 National League Cy Young Award while pitching for the Cincinnati Reds.
This document used information from Tisha Thompson and Alden González of ESPN.