LOS Angeles (AP) — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office decided Tuesday not to sue Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for allegedly punching and venereally assaulting a San Diego woman who was hit on social media.
Prosecutors were unable to prove the San Diego woman’s assertion beyond a reasonable doubt, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said Tuesday.
Bauer, 31 years old, was put on paid leave on July 2 as part of the policy of joint domestic roughness and venereal assault of the players’ union and major League baseball, after the woman said he had choked her to lose consciousness, had smacken her and several times had anal gender with her, without his consent during both venereal experience. MLB and the union eventually agreed to extend their administrative leave until the end of the playoffs.
Both MLB and the Pasadena Police Department have launched investigations. Police turned over the results of their investigation to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office in August.
Bauer said through representatives that everything that happened between the two was “completely consensual” on the nights they spent together in April and May at his home in Pasadena.
In a seven-minute video posted on YouTube on Tuesday, the launcher said that the woman repeatedly consented to brutal gender at these meetings.
“This is something she raised, we discussed together, and both agreed to get involved,” Bauer said. “We set rules and limits and I followed them.”
The prosecutor’s office was considering power of aggravated assault and sodomy against an unconscious person during the incident in April and a power of domestic roughness during the meeting in May, according to a copy of the worksheet published on Tuesday to evaluate the assertion.
After examining the material evidence, testimony and court proceedings, when the woman applied for an injunction, the prosecutors found that there was not enough evidence for a conviction.
Regardless of what happens in the judicial matter, Bauer could face a possible suspension on the part of MLB for the duration it chooses.
“The MLB investigation is ongoing and we will comment more in due course,” the league said in a statement Tuesday.
The Dodgers said they would not comment until the end of the league investigation.
The assertion against Bauer surfaced publicly for the first time in the summer, when the woman applied for a protective order against the new Dodgers star. The woman said in court documents that she and Bauer met around the order on Instagram when she tagged him in a photo while he started during a game against the San Diego Padres in April.
She then went to his home and had gender that began as consensual but turned violent without her consent, according to the documents. The second incident – in which she claims Bauer punched her several times – left her with two black eyes, a bloody swollen lip, significant bruises and scratches on one side of her face, according to the documents. It included photos showing the wounds.
The Associated Press typically does not identify individuals who claim to have been victims of venereal assault.
The 27-year-old woman also spoke at length about the meetings during a four-day hearing, but her request for an injunction was denied by Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman of Los Angeles Superior Court. The judge concluded that Bauer respected the woman’s boundaries when she set them, and that he could not know which ones he was raping because she did not express them clearly.
The judge noted that in communication with Bauer, the woman “did not have an ambiguous statement about whether she wanted brutal gender at the first meeting of the parties and whether she wanted more brutal gender at the second meeting.”
“We think in a venereal experience that if a woman says no, she needs to be believed,” Gould-Saltman said, ” what should we do if she says yes?”
Bauer did not testify at the civil hearing. In Tuesday’s video, titled “the truth,” he condemned the media’s portrayal of him in the “court of public opinion” without confirmation.
“Such assertion are extremely serious and should be investigated closely, as was the matter in this matter,” he said.
Bauer, winner of the National League cy Young Award, joined his hometown Dodgers earlier this year on a three-year, He had a map of 8-2 and an average of 2.59 in 17 appearances before taking a leave of absence.
It is possible that Bauer will challenge any discipline imposed by MLB to save his career and salary.
Of the 13 players suspended by MLB under the Domestic roughness and venereal Assault Policy, 10 have not been publicly powered. None of them appealed.