What happens in the privacy of one’s bedroom is not supposed to go viral but it has in the case of 30-year-old $!00 million, UCLA product, Dodger pitcher Trevor Bauer who’s been accused by an unknown 27-tear-old San Diego woman of sexual assault. Pasadena Police Department is investigating complaints filed by an unknown woman who claims Bauer choked her into unconsciousness before having anal sex with her. Bauer’s story hits all the raw nerves, something he’s denied as purely consensual, despite details and injuries supplied to the press by the woman’s attorney. Major League Baseball placed Bauer on administrative leave July 1, forcing him to miss his July 4 start against the Washington Nationals. “We affirm our original statement and refute [the woman’s] allegation in the strongest possible terms,” Bauer’s co-agents John Fetterolf and Rachel Luba said in a statement.
Former Dodger relief pitcher Dave Stewart passed judgment on Baurer, blaming Dodger brass for not taking a more punitive stance. “The organization isn’t what it was when we cam through,” Stewart told “USA Today.” “The Dodgers organization that I grew up in under the O’Malley family would never stand for that. The Dodgers should have stepped up in that situation, and they didn’t. You’ve go to have character standards. I told them, ‘I told them, I can’t stand up for that.’” Stewart’s certainly entitled to opinion. But a Bauer’s employer must give him due process, simply because of an egregious accusation. For all Stewart knows, the unnamed woman is a gold digger, looking to take Trevor to the cleaners. Giving some early clues, her attorney filed for a restraining order to validate her claims. But with many domestic abuse incidents, restraining orders are often abused.
When you dissect the woman’s allegations they don’t add up. Text message from contacts supplied by Bauer’s attorney shows that she was happy with the sexual encounters and wanted to come back for more. While it’s certainly understandable that the media and Bauer’s colleagues are horrified by the allegations, allegations are not facts, they’re simply charges that must, in the U.S. criminal justice system, be supported by facts. Stewart has already tried-and-convicted” Bauer, rushed to judgment because the nature of the charges are so repugnant. Stewart obviously hasn’t read E.L. James’ 2011 global bestseller “Fifty Shades of Gray” that popularized BDSM [Bondage, Discipline, Sadomasochism] literature. If the public learned anything from James’ book, it that there a sizable body of kinky people that like rough sex and are into BDSM practices for whatever reason.
Stewart, and others like him, are either naïve or are just plain judgmental. No one wants to hears or accept domestic abuse. But the allegations by the 27-year-old San Diego woman don’t add up. Judges, attorneys and the public needs to wise up about what goes no in the BDSM world, where otherwise normal and sane people take off the ordinary restraints when they get into the bedroom “MLB’s investigation into the allegations made against Trevor Bauer is ongoing,” said MLB in a statement. “While no determination in the case has been made, we have made the decision to place Mr. Bauer on seven-day administrative leave effective immediately. MLB continues to collect information in our ongoing investigation concurrent with the Pasadena Police Department’s active criminal investigation. We will comment further at the appropriate time,” said MLB’s statement.
MLB’s investigation can’t determine whether Bauer’s falsely accused by a female predator or even, whether Bauer’s proclivities toward BDSM sex don’t meet MLB’s standard as to what works for America’s pastime. All the Pasadena police know it what’s alleged by the unnamed woman, reviewing evidence, including photos of the unnamed woman’s injuries. Getting a restraining order from LA County Superior court sounds fishy because Bauer has never stocked her or lives anywhere close. Pictures show the woman with two black eyes, scratches on her face and bruised and cut lips, injuries allegedly sustained in Bauer’s Pasadena home. Whatever the woman’s motives, if Pasadena police can place her injuries at Bauer’s home, then he’ll likely face sexual battery charges. Whatever the excuses about “rough sex,” BDSM practices do no permit sexual assault, actual physical injuries.
Dodgers CEO Stan Kasten said he trusts the investigation by the Pasadena police and MLB to ascertain what should happen to Bauer. “Apparently there’s plenty more information that I have not been told, that I am not privy to, that I don’t not know anything about,” Kasten said to reporters in Washington D.C. after a team visit to the White House. “And so I’m going to wait until all of that fact gathering is complete,” Kasten said. But Kasten also know he runs a tight ship when it comes to publicity for the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. There’s only so much adverse publicity an organization can take before it impacts the product on the field. Whatever the Pasadena police or MLB finds, Bauer has destroyed his career for the foreseeable future. Whether he and the unnamed woman got carried away with BDSM, her physical injuries will most likely result in sexual assault charges, ending Bauer’s career.
