Trevor Bauer sues his domestic violence accuser, her attorney

Trevor Bauer has filed one other lawsuit associated to accusations of home abuse from final 12 months.

On Monday, Bauer filed a go well with in the USA District Courtroom for the Central District of California Southern Division towards his accuser and her legal professional, Niranjan Fred Thiagarajah, alleging defamation and tortious interference.

Bauer, a 31-year-old pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, has beforehand filed defamation fits towards Deadspin, The Athletic and former Athletic author Molly Knight associated to the identical case.

“[The accuser] fabricated allegations of sexual assault towards Plaintiff Trevor Bauer, pursued bogus felony and civil actions towards him, made false and malicious statements about him, and generated a media blitz primarily based on her lies,” the lawsuit states.

“[The accuser’s] motives for making her false claims and statements are actually clear. She needed to destroy Mr. Bauer’s fame and baseball profession, garner consideration
for herself, and extract tens of millions of dollars from Mr. Bauer. [The accuser] was aided in these efforts by her legal professional, Defendant Niranjan Fred Thiagarajah. Though a Los Angeles Superior Courtroom Choose rejected [the accuser’s] false allegations and the District Legal professional for Los Angeles County discovered them unworthy of felony fees, the injury to Mr. Bauer has been excessive.”

Trevor Bauer is suing his home violence accuser and one among her attorneys.

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In February, the Los Angeles District Legal professional’s workplace introduced that it wouldn't be urgent fees over the sexual assault allegations the previous Cy Younger winner confronted final 12 months. Earlier than that, a decide within the California Superior Courtroom denied the accuser’s request for a restraining order.

Bauer was accused of punching and choking a girl unconscious throughout intercourse. The pitcher admitted to having tough intercourse with the accuser, however mentioned it was consensual. In the course of the case, Bauer’s legal professional claimed the pitcher had textual content messages from the accuser “involving requests to be ‘choked out’ and slapped within the face” and that “the girl spent the night time, and left with out incident, persevering with to message Mr. Bauer with pleasant and flirtatious banter.”

MLB and the MLBPA agreed to put Bauer on paid administrative depart in late June. They've continued to increase it week-by-week throughout this season.

“After their first sexual encounter, [the accuser] continued to pursue Mr. Bauer so she may have tough intercourse with him once more, however this time, she informed Mr. Bauer she needed a rougher sexual expertise,” the go well with continues. “Unbeknownst to Mr. Bauer, who believed [the accuser] was simply expressing her sexual preferences, [the accuser’s] objective was to lure Mr. Bauer into having a rougher sexual expertise so she may later declare this sexual expertise was not what she requested and thereby lay the groundwork for a monetary settlement.

“To implement her plan, [the accuser] unequivocally informed Mr. Bauer that she was thinking about partaking in even rougher intercourse on a second event, speaking in express element the sexual expertise she desired. Throughout their second sexual encounter, the 2 once more engaged in consensual tough intercourse that concerned the tough sexual acts that [the accuser] requested.”

The go well with claims the accuser filed a false police report during which she claimed Bauer of “sexually assaulted her throughout their second sexual encounter by choking her unconscious on two events, punching her within the face and vagina repeatedly and scratching her face.”

He denies choking her with out her consent, and denies having punched her within the face or vagina or scratching her “in any means.”

The lawsuit additionally alleges that the accuser didn't protect digital communication, saying that she “intentionally deleted scores of textual content messages, movies, and images from her cellphone, together with textual content messages along with her two closest confidants instantly following her second sexual encounter with Mr. Bauer.”

Bauer is being represented within the go well with Blair Brown and Jon Fetterolf of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP and Shawn Holley and Kate Mangels of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP.

Niranjan Fred Thiagarajah, the accuser’s legal professional named within the go well with, has not responded to request for remark on the time of publishing.