Bauer lawyer: Lies of omission in woman’s sex assault story

LOS ANGELES — An lawyer for Trevor Bauer asked a pistillate Tuesday wherefore she near retired “dozens of cardinal facts” successful her petition for a five-year restraining bid against the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher.

“I don’t know,” answered the woman, who testified that Bauer choked her until she was unconscious and punched her repeatedly successful 2 intersexual encounters.

The speech during lawyer Shawn Holley’s cross-examination of the pistillate came successful her 2nd time of grounds astatine the proceeding successful Los Angeles Superior Court.

Holley challenged the 27-year-old San Diego pistillate connected wherefore she omitted a substance connection to Bauer earlier their meetings saying she would person her “feelings turned off” and joking that she would person a nondisclosure statement “signed and sealed” erstwhile she came to spot him.

The pistillate said she nary longer had entree to those texts.

Holley asked wherefore she got backmost into furniture and slept adjacent to Bauer aft the traumatic acquisition she testified that she had. The pistillate said she wanted to retrieve the hours of affectional transportation the 2 had experienced beforehand.

“I didn’t privation to deliberation astir what conscionable happened,” the pistillate said. “I wanted to spell backmost to the mode it was earlier we had sex.”

The proceeding is expected to proceed Wednesday and Thursday, and to see grounds from Bauer, 30, who was placed connected paid administrative permission connected July 2 by Major League Baseball. The permission has been extended done Friday. MLB says it is conducting its ain probe and Bauer could look punishment nether baseball’s home unit policy.

Holley said during her opening connection that the pistillate gave Bauer each denotation she consented to the attraction she received during the nights they spent unneurotic astatine his location successful Pasadena.

Under questioning from her ain attorney, the pistillate testified that her fearfulness grew arsenic bruises emerged and her symptom surged the time aft the 2nd clip she saw Bauer, successful May.

The 27-year-old said she sent Bauer a representation of herself aft returning location to San Diego.

“I could not judge what my look looked like,” she said. “I wanted him to cognize what he’d done to me.”

Bauer replied successful a substance message, “damn girl, are you OK?”

The pistillate said she was conscionable arsenic frightened of the societal consequences arsenic the carnal ones, and was astatine archetypal determined to archer nary 1 else.

“I knew however that was going to go,” she testified. “That concern paints maine arsenic the slut. I didn’t privation the communicative to spell anywhere.”

But a sojourn with her champion friend, who was “mortified’ by however she looked, convinced her to question aesculapian help. She would extremity up successful a infirmary exigency room, she said, which led to visits from a societal worker, her parents and Pasadena police, who are inactive investigating 3 months later.

On Tuesday, she discussed the aftermath of the 2nd visit, successful which according to her grounds Bauer had punched her successful the look and vagina, and near bruises connected her gums, astir her eyes and down her ears.

She said she was frightened astatine what Bauer mightiness person done to her portion she was unconscious. In substance messages and a telephone telephone she made to him for Pasadena constabulary to record, helium said that helium lone punched her successful the buttocks during that time.

She described an hours-long intersexual battle exam that she said was terribly traumatic and physically painful.

The caregiver who conducted the introspection took the basal and testified Tuesday that she had ne'er seen the benignant of bruising she documented connected and astir the woman’s vagina successful the astir 75 akin exams that she had done.

Nurse Kelly Valencia said, “it was frankly alarming,” but did not deliberation it required further treatment.

The pistillate testified that she received regular messages from Bauer, expressing his concern.

“Here for you if you privation to talk,” 1 read.

“I consciousness truthful atrocious that this happened,” different said.

He offered to nonstop her groceries portion she was recovering astatine home, oregon different help.

The pistillate said she appreciated his acknowledgement astatine first.

“It felt bully to perceive that helium felt bad,” she said.

But she recovered the messages progressively disconcerting, and she disquieted that helium knew she had talked to police.

“I felt similar helium was saying these things truthful I would unopen up,” she testified.

The Associated Press does not typically place radical who accidental they person been victims of intersexual assault.

Bauer agreed to a $102 million, three-year declaration to articulation his hometown Dodgers earlier this twelvemonth aft winning his archetypal Cy Young with the Cincinnati Reds past season.