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Bauer attorney attacks credibility of woman seeking restraining order against Dodgers pitcher

A lawyer representing Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer attempted Wednesday to punch holes in a restraining order petition filed by a 27-year-old San Diego woman who claims she is terrified of the baseball star because he choked and beat her during two sexual encounters at his Pasadena home earlier this year.

Attorney Shawn Holley took issue with the tone of text messages the woman sent to friends after the alleged assault, her desire for media attention and omissions and exaggerations in a request for a five year restraining order against Bauer under consideration by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman.

Despite aggressive questioning from Holley during the third day of the hearing, the woman remained resolute that the information included in the petition is accurate and its aim is to protect her from Bauer.

“My intention was not to leave anything out to lean one way or the other,” she testified. “I did the best I could.”

Holley attacked the woman’s claim that she fears the retraining order petition could cause Bauer to suffer a mental breakdown, prompting him travel from Pasadena to San Diego and retaliate against her.

“Do you believe he was going to come to your house 130 miles away?” Holley asked.

During cross-examination from her attorney, Doreen Olson, the woman said she was so frightened of Bauer that she and her father, who is a baseball coach, left town and traveled to Northern California in June when the San Diego Padres hosted the Dodgers.

Holley noted that, before the game, the woman sent a text to a friend suggesting they attend incognito to watch Bauer pitch.

Holley also implied the woman, who is a recovering alcoholic, wasn’t truthful when she testified that she lost her job at a San Diego sober living home for women due to trauma from her sexual encounters with Bauer. The lawyer said the real reason for the woman’s dismissal was that her boss believed she had relapsed due to her interaction with Bauer.

Holley also accused the woman of using social media, including Twitter, to promote her bid for the restraining order. “The media is on my side. My story needs to come out,” Holley said while reading several of the woman’s social media posts in court.

The woman acknowledged that some of her texts to friends about Bauer were inappropriate. “They were vulgar, angry and immature,” she said. “It was a way for me to cope.”

The woman and Bauer first connected after she tagged him on an Instagram post and he responded. Several days later, on April 21, she said she went to Bauer’s home, where they first talked for several hours about their life experiences and then had rough sex.

The woman testified that Bauer shoved two fingers down her throat, wrapped her hair around her neck and choked her unconscious.

Bauer invited her to his home again on May 15. The woman said she went to his residence to build on the positive emotional conversation they had during their first meeting and to move on from the bad sexual experience.

However, she found the second encounter with Bauer even more traumatizing than the first, claiming that he again choked her and also punched her in the face, buttocks and vagina, requiring her to be hospitalized.

The San Diego woman apparently is the second petitioner to file for a restraining order against Bauer.

The Washington Post reported last week that an Ohio woman also sought a protective order against Bauer in 2020. According to the Post, the woman sought the protection stemming from a 2017 encounter during which she was alleged to have suffered injuries to her face, blaming Bauer and asserting she received repeated threats from him

After police responded to an incident at Bauer’s residence — he was playing for the Cleveland Indians at the time — the woman was arrested for underage drinking.

Bauer responded to the Post story on his Twitter account.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.


Source: Orange County Register

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