The California woman being sued for defamation by suspended Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer for allegedly falsely accusing him of sexual assault has filed counterclaims over the encounters at the center of the dispute, again accusing him of “violently and sadistically” abusing her.
In a 12-page filing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, lawyers for Lindsey Hill said Bauer has used his wealth to wage an “organized smear campaign to falsely and maliciously denigrate Hill and other victims.”
“Some men believe they are above the law,” it begins.
“In one online video entitled ‘The Truth,’ Bauer categorically denied, among other things, that he ever punched Hill in the face or vagina,” according to the filing from Bryan J. Freedman and Jesse A. Kaplan of Freedman + Taitelman, LLP. “Tellingly, Bauer did not deny punching Hill in the buttocks or choking her to the point of unconsciousness.”
The filing also says two women in Ohio, where Bauer pitched for the Cincinnati Reds before joining the Los Angeles Dodgers, have since “come forward with information about how they were also battered by Bauer in similar fashion.”
Roughly a year ago, Hill lost her bid to extend a restraining order against Bauer. In that ruling, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman found Hill’s petition “materially misleading” and noted that the case boiled down to how much of the conduct was consensual “rough sex.”
“We consider that, in the...
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