Trevor Bauer.Photo: Rob Tringali/Getty
A representative for Bauer tells PEOPLE on Thursday that the temporary protection order was granted without advance notion to Bauer and without the judge hearing an evidence from him. The athlete’s legal team plan on refuting the allegations at a hearing set for July 23.
In her request statement requesting the court order, the woman says she first met Bauer at his Pasadena, California, home in April after striking up a conversation with the MLB star on social media.
While the woman says she did agree to have sex with the athlete during their first meeting, she claims Bauer choked her with her own hair “without asking” until she lost consciousness.
According to the woman, she awoke to Bauer having anal sex with her without consent.
“It was extremely painful. I was, at first, still disoriented and unable to speak,” she says in her statement. “As soon as I was able, I said ‘Can we stop.’ and he immediately did.”
“I was absolutely frozen and terrified. I could not speak or move,” the woman says in her statement. “I tasted blood in my mouth and felt that my lip was split open. My whole body hurt and I could not even tell if he was having sex with me.”
The woman claims her second and final encounter with Bauer left her with a severe headache, two black eyes, a swollen jaw and other bruising throughout her body. She says she returned home to San Diego and was taken to a hospital there after throwing up throughout the day.
The woman says in her statement to the court that detectives from the Pasadena Police Department questioned her after she was discharged from the hospital. She alleges that police “wanted to record a phone call” between herself and Bauer, so she called up the athlete and recorded him allegedly acknowledging that he had punched her.
Trevor Bauer.Harry How/Getty
Bauer, through his agent Jon Fetterolf, has denied the accusations.
“Mr. Bauer and [the woman] have not corresponded in over a month and have not seen each other in over six weeks. Her basis for filing a protection order is nonexistent, fraudulent, and deliberately omits key facts, information, and her own relevant communications. Any allegations that the pair’s encounters were not 100% consensual are baseless, defamatory, and will be refuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Marc Garelick, an attorney for the woman, previously confirmed to PEOPLE that a restraining order against Bauer has been obtained under the Domestic Violence Prevention Act.
In a statement provided to PEOPLE on Thursday, Bryan Freedman, a co-counsel for the woman, says that any “suggestion that she was not the victim of assault is not only false and defamatory but, in fact, perpetuates the abuse.”
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Pasadena Police Department confirmed that law enforcement officials are currently looking into the allegations against Bauer.
The Dodgers are also aware of the allegations and have contacted Major League Baseball, which will be handling the matter, a spokesperson for the team previously told PEOPLE.
“The Dodgers take any allegations of this nature very seriously, but will have no further comment at this time,” a statement from the team read.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.
source: people.com
