Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault allegations.
Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is on lawsuit spree. This time, he’s filed a defamation case against the San Diego woman who accused him last year of sexually assaulting her.
The filing stems from accusations made last June by a then-27-year-old San Diego woman who was granted a temporary restraining order against Bauer after accusing him of turning consensual sex into an all-out assault. She alleged that the pitcher punched her about the face and body, strangled her, and penetrated her anally without her consent on two occasions at his Pasadena home that spring.
In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Bauer is seeking unspecified monetary and punitive damages, with his lawyers claiming that the woman “fabricated allegations of sexual assault against Plaintiff Trevor Bauer, pursued bogus criminal and civil actions against him, made false and malicious statements about him, and generated a media blitz based on her lies.”
Bauer’s legal team further states in the suit that his accuser’s “motives for making her false claims and statements are now clear. She wanted to destroy Mr. Bauer’s reputation and baseball career, garner attention for herself, and extract millions of dollars from Mr. Bauer.”
Bauer is also suing the woman’s attorney, Fred Thiagarajah, for “making knowingly false statements about me to the media,” the player tweeted, referring to...
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