{"id":1412974,"date":"2022-03-31T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412974"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:29:44","slug":"trevor-bauer-suing-the-athletic-for-defamation-over-sexual-assault-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trevor-bauer-suing-the-athletic-for-defamation-over-sexual-assault-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Bauer Suing The Athletic For Defamation Over Sexual Assault Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrevor-bauer-suing-the-athletic-for-defamation-over-sexual-assault-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412974&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1328037237.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer filed a lawsuit this week against The Athletic and its former writer Molly Knight for defamation stemming from the outlet\u2019s reporting on sexual assault allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/08\/trevor-bauer-will-not-be-charged-in-alleged-sexual-assault\/\">reported<\/a> in February that Bauer would not face charges over the allegations that he punched and choked a woman unconscious during sexual activity. Prior to that, a California Superior Court judge denied the accuser\u2019s attempt to get a restraining order against Bauer, ruling that the Cy Young award winner didn\u2019t pose a threat to the woman. The judge also ruled that the woman\u2019s injuries \u201cwere not the result of anything she verbally objected to before or during the encounter,\u201d ESPN <a href=\"http:\/\/go.nypost.com\/?id=93051X1547088&#038;isjs=1&#038;jv=15.2.4-stackpath&#038;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2021%2F08%2F19%2Fjudge-hands-trevor-bauer-major-win-in-sexual-assault-case%2F&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.web.plus.espn.com%2Fc%2F2229206%2F531512%2F9070%3F_ir%3DU223%257C35f498a5-bdf9-11ea-81b7-42010a246e0e%257C1648738645654%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.espn.com%252Fmlb%252Fstory%252F_%252Fid%252F32051068%252Fwoman-denied-restraining-order-trevor-bauer%26stat%3D1&#038;xs=1&#038;xtz=240&#038;xuuid=3bce3a5e99541ae034bb602ca00ef682&#038;abp=1&#038;xjsf=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5D\">reported<\/a> in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who has not been named in media reports and has been referred to only as \u201cMs. Hill\u201d in court documents, claimed that Bauer punched her, choked her, and left scratches and bruises on her face. Bauer admitted to having sex with the accuser but said that the roughness was consensual and that he did not do as she claimed. In February, Bauer defended himself in a YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GWf4vceSpXs\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this is not the time or the place to address every single lie or falsehood that this woman or her lawyers made to the court, I do want to be crystal clear about a few things,\u201d Bauer said in the video, according to the Post. \u201cI never punched this woman in the face. I never punched her in the vagina. I never scratched her face. I never had anal sex with her or sodomized her in any way. I never assaulted her in any way at any time. While we did have consensual rough sex, the disturbing acts and conduct that she described simply did not occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bauer also said that the photos of the woman with black eyes and bruises had been edited. His attorney said that text messages between Bauer and his accuser involved \u201crequests to be \u2018choked out\u2019 and slapped in the face.\u201d The attorney also said that \u201cthe woman spent the night, and left without incident, continuing to message Mr. Bauer with friendly and flirtatious banter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bauer\u2019s lawsuit against The Athletic and Knight insist the outlet and writer \u201cdefamed Mr. Bauer by creating and spreading the false narrative that Mr. Bauer fractured the Complainant\u2019s skull.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims The Athletic had access to the accuser\u2019s medical records, which showed no skull fracture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no basis for that assertion because the Complainant\u2019s own medical records \u2014 which The Athletic possessed \u2014 showed that she had no such fracture,\u201d the lawsuit says. \u201cNonetheless, consistent with their prior and subsequent expressions of animus toward Mr. Bauer, The Athletic and Ms. Knight publicized that false attack, which was picked up and further disseminated to a larger audience by other media outlets and social media sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says that Knight publicly, through her Twitter profile, said the accuser\u2019s skull had been \u201ccracked\u201d or \u201cfractured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendants acted with actual malice because they deliberately ignored the truth \u2014 which was evident in the medical records possessed by The Athletic \u2014 and because the Defendants\u2019 defamatory statements were part of a campaign to harass Mr. Bauer, as evidenced by, among other actions, their prior and subsequent false and misleading statements about his conduct and character, their efforts to dissuade Major League Baseball teams from signing him, and their strident complaints about the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 decision to add him to their team,\u201d the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer is also suing Deadspin for its coverage of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic told the Post that it was \u201caware of legal action taken by Trevor Bauer,\u201d and that the outlet was \u201cconfident in our reporting and plan to defend against the claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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