Woman says violence by Trevor Bauer left her in pain, fear

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman seeking a five-year restraining order against Trevor Bauer testified Tuesday that her horror grew as bruises emerged and her pain surged the day after a sexual encounter in which she said the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher choked her into unconsciousness and punched her repeatedly.

The 27-year-old said she sent Bauer a picture of herself after returning home to San Diego.

“I could not believe what my face looked like,” she said under a second day of questioning from her attorney in Los Angeles Superior Court. “I wanted him to know what he'd done to me.”

Bauer, who has said through representatives that everything that happened between the two was wholly consensual, replied in a text message, “damn girl, are you OK?”

The woman said she was just as frightened of the social consequences as the physical ones, and was at first determined to tell no one else.

“I knew how that was going to to go,” she testified. “That situation paints me as the slut. I didn't want the story to go anywhere.”

But a visit with her best friend, who was "mortified' by how she looked, convinced her to seek medical help. She would end up in a hospital emergency room, she said, which led to visits from a social worker, her parents and police, who are still investigating three months later.

Bauer's attorney Shawn Holley began cross-examining the woman late Tuesday morning and was likely to continue for the rest of the day at the hearing that is expected to last most of the week and is scheduled to include testimony from Bauer.

Holley suggested with her early questions that the woman's declaration seeking the order contained many lies of omission.

Holley said during her opening statement Monday that the woman gave Bauer every indication she consented to the treatment she...

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