Paul Takakjian, a criminal defense lawyer who is not involved in Bauer’s case but previously served as a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, said he saw Thursday’s ruling as “a harbinger of maybe good news” for [Trevor] Bauer in his criminal investigation “because of the thoroughness with which the accuser was discredited in the judge’s eyes.” NY Times [2022-04-30]
I post this link with no pleasure, but because we are all continually confronted with advocates for women insisting that women never lie about sexual assault.
It appears that the woman let slip that she hoped to extract a large sum of money from Bauer as a result of her allegations, and in spite of lavish evidence that she consented to his actions in the bedroom. In fact, the woman initiated contact with Bauer and requested “rough sex” and, apparently, even specifically asked for actions by Bauer that she later alleged were abusive.
I am disappointed– but not surprised– that Major League Baseball suspended Bauer for 2 years regardless of the facts. It is not logical. Either the woman has been discredited or she has not. If she was discredited– and she certainly was after a “thorough” investigation– then Bauer’s behavior may have been distasteful and offensive to the more mainstream (public) preferences of Commissioner Rob Manfred and his colleagues, but it should not be grounds for a suspension, and I would not be surprised if Bauer wins his appeal.
I repeat that– it was a thorough investigation. No judge would be eager to dismiss charges in an explosive case like this but the judge, Dianna Gould-Saltman — yes, a woman– had no choice. The evidence was clear and convincing.
This reminds me of the Jian Ghomeshi case in which several women also lied about the incident– to the police and in court– and then coordinated their stories. Ghomeshi’s lawyer provided the court with convincing proof that the women had lied and the case was dismissed. Yet the feminist establishment continued to behave as if he had been found guilty.
They will behave the same way in the case of Trevor Bauer and that is why MLB suspended him in spite of the court case collapse. If they had let him resume his career, they would have been relentlessly savaged in the media and nobody wants to have defend someone whose taste runs to rough sex, and nobody wants to even mention the fact that the woman requested it because feminist orthodoxy is that the woman never asks for it.
Another case of a woman lying about sexual assault.