MLB pitcher files lawsuit against sexual assault accuser

MLB pitcher Trevor Bauer has filed another lawsuit related to accusations of domestic abuse against him.

Bauer filed the suit on Monday in the US District Court for the Central District of California Southern Divison against his accuser, who accused him of domestic violence, and her attorney Niranjan Fred Thiagarajah.

Bauer is alleging defamation and tortious interference.

Bauer had previously filed a defamation suit against The Athletic, Deadspin, and writer Molly Knight, all relating to the case.

"[The accuser] fabricated allegations of sexual assault against Plaintiff Trevor Bauer, pursued bogus criminal and civil actions against him, made false and malicious statements about him, and generated a media blitz based on her lies," the lawsuit says.

"[The accuser's] motives for making her false claims and statements are now clear. She wanted to destroy Mr. Bauer's reputation and baseball career, garner attention
for herself, and extract millions of dollars from Mr. Bauer. [The accuser] was aided in those efforts by her attorney, Defendant Niranjan Fred Thiagarajah. Although a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge rejected [the accuser’s] false allegations and the District Attorney for Los Angeles County found them unworthy of criminal charges, the damage to Mr. Bauer has been extreme," it states, according to the New York Post.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office announced in February that it would not be pressing charges over allegations of sexual assault against Bauer, with the California Superior Court also denying a restraining order for the accuser.

Bauer was accused of punching and choking a woman unconscious during sex. While Bauher admits that he had rough sex with the accuser, he said that it was consensual.

Bauer's attorney says that the pitcher has text messages from the accuser that involve "requests to be 'choked out' and slapped in the face" and that "the woman spent the night, and left without incident, continuing to message Mr. Bauer with friendly and flirtatious banter."

The MLB and MLBPA put Bauer on paid administrative leave in June, and have continued to extend it week-by-week during the season.

"After their first sexual encounter, [the accuser] continued to pursue Mr. Bauer so she could have rough sex with him again, but this time, she told Mr. Bauer she wanted a rougher sexual experience," the suit says. "Unbeknownst to Mr. Bauer, who believed [the accuser] was just expressing her sexual preferences, [the accuser’s] goal was to lure Mr. Bauer into having a rougher sexual experience so she could later claim this sexual experience was not what she requested and thereby lay the groundwork for a financial settlement.

"To implement her plan, [the accuser] unequivocally told Mr. Bauer that she was interested in engaging in even rougher sex on a second occasion, communicating in explicit detail the sexual experience she desired. During their second sexual encounter, the two again engaged in consensual rough sex that involved the rough sexual acts that [the accuser] requested."

The suit says that the accuser filed a false police report that claims that Bauer "sexually assaulted her during their second sexual encounter by choking her unconscious on two occasions, punching her in the face and vagina repeatedly and scratching her face."

Bauer says that all acts between the two were consensual, and denies having punched her vagina.

The lawsuit says that the accuser allegedly deleted text communications, saying that she "deliberately deleted scores of text messages, videos, and photographs from her phone, including text messages with her two closest confidants immediately following her second sexual encounter with Mr. Bauer."