As their years-long sexual relationship continued, the girl stated, they agreed he would cease choking her earlier than she handed out. However he ceaselessly ignored her warnings, she stated. He additionally slapped her with out her consent and anally penetrated her whereas she was unconscious, she stated.

In interviews with The Washington Put up, the Columbus lady stated she determined to share her story after Bauer denied related allegations made by two different ladies and accused them of mendacity for potential monetary achieve. The Columbus lady requested to not be named, and The Put up sometimes doesn’t identify alleged victims of home violence until they ask to be recognized.

The Columbus lady shared pictures and screenshots of textual content messages documenting that she had a relationship with Bauer. One screenshot reveals a textual content message bearing Bauer’s identify wherein he allegedly wrote, “I wish to f— you whilst you’re utterly unconscious.”

MLB suspended Bauer for 2 years on Friday, the longest suspension within the historical past of the league’s home abuse and sexual assault coverage. Bauer instantly proclaimed his innocence and vowed to enchantment. MLB cited an “in depth investigation” however didn’t disclose its findings due to the coverage’s phrases of confidentiality, and stated “it is not going to difficulty any additional statements.”

The Columbus lady and her lawyer, Joe Tacopina, stated she shared her allegations with MLB. She stated she is keen to testify within the arbitration listening to that might consequence from Bauer interesting. MLB declined to remark for this story.

Bauer declined via his legal professional and agent, Jon Fetterolf, to be interviewed. A press release issued by Bauer’s representatives didn’t deny that the Columbus lady had a relationship with Bauer however stated the pitcher “unequivocally denies” her “false and defamatory” allegations.

“Any impartial reader of the scores of textual content messages, compromising pictures and sexually specific movies this lady despatched of herself to Mr. Bauer during the last three years demanding the very intercourse acts that she now claims had been problematic — with none prior criticism — would strongly query the veracity of her allegations,” the assertion learn.

Bauer’s representatives wouldn’t present any of that alleged correspondence to The Put up. The girl advised The Put up that she beforehand misplaced all of her textual content messages with Bauer, apart from these she took screenshots of, when she switched telephones. However she stated any intimate messages she despatched to Bauer didn’t excuse his alleged actions with out her consent throughout intercourse. She stated she felt “slut-shamed” by Bauer’s representatives citing these texts as a protection.

She made clear that she did consent to intercourse with Bauer. “However throughout intercourse,” she stated, “issues occurred outdoors of my consent.”

After the publication of this story, Bauer responded on Twitter and explicitly denied a few of the lady’s allegations. “The incidents she detailed to the Washington Put up — and particularly the one which concerned non-consensual choking wherein she claims to have convulsed and woken up on a lodge ground — completely by no means occurred, in any capability,” Bauer wrote. “Moreover, at no level throughout intercourse or in any other case did I ever hit her.”

Earlier than being suspended, Bauer had been on paid administrative go away since final summer time, when a lady in California sought a restraining order towards him, alleging that he choked her to unconsciousness and punched and anally penetrated her with out her consent throughout intercourse, resulting in her hospitalization. The Dodgers had been obligated to proceed paying his three-year, $102 million contract whereas he was sidelined.

Bauer has denied the California lady’s allegations, too, claiming that they’d consensual tough intercourse. A decide denied his California accuser’s petition for a restraining order in August, discovering that she wasn’t clear sufficient about her boundaries throughout intercourse.

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The Put up additionally reported final summer time {that a} completely different lady in Ohio sought a restraining order towards Bauer in 2020, throughout his Cy Younger Award-winning season with the Cincinnati Reds. That lady additionally accused Bauer of choking and hanging her with out her consent throughout intercourse and sending her threatening messages. She cooperated with MLB investigators, too, her lawyer stated.

Bauer additionally has denied that lady’s allegations, and the girl withdrew her request for the restraining order after Bauer’s lawyer threatened authorized motion towards her, court docket data and authorized correspondence present.

The emergence of a brand new accuser is the most recent chapter in MLB’s practically year-long effort to achieve management of a scandal like none it beforehand confronted.

In each earlier case within the historical past of MLB’s seven-year-old home violence coverage, the accused gamers and their representatives negotiated the lengths of suspension. However with Bauer, MLB officers had been tasked with figuring out the punishment of an unapologetic determine buoyed by favorable authorized selections associated to his case.

When the decide denied the restraining order towards him final summer time, she discovered that parts of the girl’s court docket petition had been “materially deceptive.” In February, Los Angeles prosecutors declined to cost Bauer, saying they had been “unable to show the related prices past an affordable doubt.”

Bauer filed defamation lawsuits towards two media retailers, Deadspin and the Athletic, which have coated his case. (Each retailers have denied his claims.) And Monday, Bauer sued his California accuser and one in all her attorneys. Bauer claimed that the girl’s pursuit of a restraining order was a part of a scheme to “lure Mr. Bauer into having a rougher sexual expertise” and “lay the groundwork for a monetary settlement.”

In the course of the restraining order listening to, Bauer declined to testify, exercising his Fifth Modification proper to remain silent. However after studying that he wouldn’t face prices, he explicitly denied that he punched the California lady throughout intercourse or sodomized her with out her consent, acts that might be potential grounds for MLB punishment below its abuse coverage.

Bauer’s denials seem to have motivated the Columbus lady, who stated she determined to talk as much as assist the ladies he has tried to publicly model as liars.

“My hope is that individuals will see that these ladies aren’t making this up,” she stated. “I’ve no motive to return ahead aside from to again up what they’re saying and to say that, like, this occurred to me years in the past, earlier than he was anyone.”

‘A really light individual’

The Columbus lady offered a screenshot of what she says was her first textual content dialog with Bauer, upon assembly him on a relationship app in April 2013. They had been of their early 20s; he advised her he was in “participant growth” for the minor league Columbus Clippers. Solely after he left her tickets to a sport, she stated, did she be taught he was really a beginning pitcher.

He made 4 spot begins for Cleveland’s large league membership that 12 months. After one sport in Cleveland, the girl stated, he drove instantly again to Columbus so they might watch a DVD from Redbox. “That’s the form of individual that he was again then,” she stated. “He was very candy, very considerate — like a really light individual. From then on, we had been by no means, like, formally collectively, however we had been collectively the entire time.”

The Columbus lady offered pictures depicting moments from their relationship, together with of them mendacity in mattress collectively and one in all him consuming cereal with apple juice. It was his minor league customized, she stated, to not purchase milk that might spoil whereas he was on the street.

The girl stated she was in an unhealthy mind-set on the time, together with affected by a extreme consuming dysfunction, which she now believes led her to rationalize Bauer’s alleged abuse throughout intercourse. She preferred his firm in any other case, she stated.

“I believe that he loved pushing the boundaries the place he might as a result of he knew that I wasn’t in a position to stand as much as him or that I wasn’t going to, even though he knew that wasn’t okay,” the girl stated.

The Columbus lady stated Bauer started choking her unconscious throughout intercourse with out them ever talking of it first. She stated she then advised him that she was okay with him choking her “to a sure level,” which was when she regarded as if she was about to cross out. After he then allegedly choked her to the purpose of convulsions in January 2014, after they had been in a Cleveland lodge after Tribe Fest, the group’s fan competition, she stated he was apologetic in response to her anger that he had violated what they agreed upon.

However then, she stated, he continued to choke her to unconsciousness in ensuing sexual encounters. “He’d form of push it, and form of push it, and form of push it,” she stated of the choking, “and I’m like, ‘Dude, you bought to f—ing hear.’ ”

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She stated that when Bauer choked her throughout intercourse, he would solely let go if she “acquired pissed and was like determined about it” — or if she handed out, which she stated occurred dozens of occasions. The girl stated Bauer typically recorded their intercourse, with a GoPro digital camera mounted on a tripod or generally worn on his head. She is in possession of a video, she stated, that reveals him choking her throughout intercourse as she struggled to flee.

The girl’s lawyer, Tacopina, stated he has considered the video. “She’s clearly struggling to breathe and tapping his arm to let go, and also you see her pores and skin colour darkening,” Tacopina stated. They declined to share the video with The Put up and stated additionally they haven’t shared it with MLB, out of worry of it being circulated extra broadly.

The Columbus lady claimed that at occasions when she regained consciousness, she discovered that Bauer was anally penetrating her with out consent. She claimed he was referencing such conduct when he texted her July 22, 2014, that he wished to have intercourse along with her whereas she was “utterly unconscious.” The screenshot she shared with The Put up doesn’t present what, if something, she wrote again.

The girl additionally claimed that after an argument on the motion pictures, they’d “hate intercourse,” throughout which he repeatedly slapped her within the face out of evident anger — one in all a number of occasions she claimed he struck her with out her consent.

She stated that after intercourse, she typically had an aching throat from being choked or ache in her collarbone attributable to the energy of his arm. “We’d be having intercourse and I’d simply be like within the pillow crying as a result of this isn’t enjoyable, I don’t get pleasure from this,” the girl stated.

Bauer’s representatives didn’t reply on the report to repeated requests for touch upon the alleged video and textual content message, or whether or not Bauer ever noticed the Columbus lady crying throughout intercourse.

Like the opposite ladies who’ve publicly accused Bauer of abuse, the Columbus lady’s allegations stemmed from his actions throughout sexual encounters that had been initially consensual. She stated that solely lately, as the general public dialogue of such issues has grow to be extra widespread, did she come to imagine that his alleged actions along with her violated the foundations of consent.

Natalie Nanasi, an affiliate professor of regulation specializing in home violence on the SMU Dedman Faculty of Regulation in Texas, stated the problem of proving a scarcity of consent “is why you not often see prosecutions” stemming from allegations of violence throughout tough intercourse. She stated questions of consent are additionally difficult by abusers searching for out or creating relationships that includes an imbalance of energy: “They choose victims who they see as weak in a technique or one other.”

Nanasi stated strangulation — which she stated was the correct time period for the exercise colloquially often known as choking — is an act that may be consensual throughout intercourse. However she stated that within the case of a person allegedly strangling a intercourse associate to unconsciousness after which performing intercourse acts whereas she is handed out, “that actually looks as if not one thing she consented to.”

MLB’s Joint Home Violence, Sexual Assault and Youngster Abuse Coverage, adopted in 2015, provides it broad latitude to find out self-discipline even in these instances the place there have been no legal prices.

The coverage defines sexual assault as a “nonconsensual intercourse act” and states that lack of consent is “inferred” when the sufferer is “asleep, incapacitated, unconscious or legally incapable of consent.” The coverage additionally defines home violence as “a sample of abusive conduct in any intimate relationship that’s utilized by one associate to achieve or preserve energy and management over one other intimate associate.” A participant can enchantment any self-discipline from MLB to an impartial arbitrator.

The Columbus lady stated she expects individuals could not perceive why she continued to stick with Bauer because the alleged abuse continued. “I used to be in all probability naive again then, however I used to be like: ‘Possibly he doesn’t imply to be doing it. This individual that I care about, that claims to care about me, too, he wouldn’t be purposefully hurting me,’ ” the girl stated. “However now I’m form of like: ‘Yeah, yeah, he was. He knew what he was doing.’ ”

After Bauer was promoted for good to the majors in the course of the 2014 season, the Columbus lady stated, their relationship turned extra informal, often consisting of her driving to go to him in Cleveland. And she or he stated his persona shifted as he had extra success.

They clashed, she stated, after he despatched a video of one other lady performing oral intercourse on him. Together with his profile rising, on the sphere and on-line, he began to search out sexual companions on social media, which is how he met the opposite two ladies who’ve publicly accused him.

The Columbus lady stated that in 2019, after Bauer had been traded to the Cincinnati Reds, he invited her to see him there however instructed that she might return to Columbus the identical evening.

The girl stated that, by then, she was uninterested in actions that she now felt had been demeaning, resembling leaving baseball tickets for her below the identify “Canine on Leash.” (Bauer’s representatives didn’t touch upon whether or not he had ever executed that.) And she or he stated she had additionally begun to understand that she was in “an extremely poisonous and extremely unhealthy state of affairs” with Bauer. She balked on the thought of getting to “drive two hours to have intercourse I’m going to finish up not having fun with,” the girl stated. They argued over textual content messages, she stated, and he or she by no means noticed him in individual once more.

The girl stated that after altering cellphones, the one messages with Bauer she nonetheless has are these she had made screenshots of over time, consisting of each good recollections and dangerous.

She acknowledged that in some messages with Bauer that she not has entry to, she could have referred favorably to being choked. “That doesn’t negate the truth that he pushed boundaries I don’t need pushed,” the girl stated, arguing that such messages are irrelevant to intercourse acts, together with choking her unconscious, that she claims occurred with out her consent.

Bauer’s representatives stated within the assertion denying the girl’s allegations that she had despatched “scores” of intimate texts, pictures and movies “during the last three years.” However the lady stated she had little correspondence with him following the argument within the fall of 2019.

She stated she texted Bauer on his birthday in 2020, however he didn’t reply. The next 12 months, she stated, she learn in regards to the restraining order towards Bauer in California and spent that workday in a “fog,” reeling from allegations just like these she claimed to have skilled, too.

‘These ladies aren’t mendacity’

Inside two weeks of the restraining order being filed towards Bauer in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, data and interviews present, MLB’s attorneys and investigators had been chasing down leads regarding different ladies believed to have related allegations.

However those that have gone public with allegations towards Bauer have confronted monetary publicity and public humiliation. In August, after The Put up revealed the existence of a earlier order of safety filed towards Bauer in Ohio, Bauer claimed her allegations had been a part of an extortion try and launched a whole lot of her textual content messages on Twitter. (That lady and her lawyer have denied any monetary motive in searching for her order of safety.)

Additionally that month, throughout a four-day listening to within the California lady’s efforts to safe a restraining order, Bauer’s attorneys questioned that lady about previous intercourse companions and launched textual content messages they claimed had been proof of her alleged plot to extract a monetary settlement, which she has denied.

As she adopted the protection of the restraining order listening to, the Columbus lady started to really feel an obligation to share her story. “I really feel like I didn’t communicate out when it was taking place prior to now; I stored it actually quiet,” she stated of Bauer’s alleged abuse. “And so I really feel like I might have prevented it from taking place to different individuals if I spoke out then and I didn’t.”

After the decide denied the California accuser’s petition for a restraining order, the Columbus lady despatched her a non-public Instagram message saying that she believed her — as a result of the identical issues had occurred to her.

Shortly afterward, she stated, she had a cellphone dialog with MLB attorneys wherein she shared her allegations. She additionally determined to inform her story publicly in The Put up.

“You possibly can solely name so many ladies loopy earlier than individuals are like, ‘However, hey, what’s the widespread theme right here?’ ” she stated of Bauer. “And it’s you.”

She’s frightened of what comes subsequent, the girl stated, particularly after Bauer’s lawsuit this week towards his accuser in California. She fears that Bauer will publicly launch intimate textual content messages from her. However the lady stated such ways gained’t deter her.

“Now I really feel that I would like to talk out and again up what they’re saying as a result of my expertise with him goes again thus far,” the Columbus lady stated of the opposite accusers. “And it form of simply proves, like: ‘Hey, these ladies aren’t mendacity. They’re not on the lookout for one thing. They’re telling the reality.’ ”

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