Prosecutors won't file charges against Dodgers pitcher Bauer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday decided not to charge Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for allegedly beating and sexually abusing a San Diego woman he met through social media.

Prosecutors were unable to prove the San Diego woman’s accusations beyond a reasonable doubt, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Bauer, 31, was placed on paid leave on July 2 under the players' union and Major League Baseball’s joint domestic violence and sexual assault policy after the woman said he choked her into unconsciousness, punched her repeatedly and had anal sex with her without her consent during two sexual encounters. MLB and the union eventually agreed to extend his administrative leave through the end of the postseason.

MLB and the Pasadena Police Department both launched investigations. Police turned over the results of their investigation to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office in August.

Bauer has said through representatives that everything that happened between the two was “wholly consensual” in the nights they spent together in April and May at his Pasadena home.

In a seven-minute video posted Tuesday to YouTube, the pitcher said the woman repeatedly consented to rough sex during those encounters.

“This is something that she brought up, we discussed together, and both agreed to engage in,” Bauer said . “We established rules and boundaries and I followed them.”

The district attorney's office looked into felony assault and sodomy charges on an unconscious person from the incident in April, and a domestic violence charge from the encounter in May, according to a copy of the case's charge evaluation worksheet released Tuesday.

After reviewing physical evidence, witness statements and court proceedings when the woman...

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