One of the women who accused former Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault was herself indicted on Monday for defrauding the former LA Dodger with false claims and a faked pregnancy.
According to court filings from the District Attorney’s Office in Maricopa County, Arizona, Darcy Adanna Esemonu, who sued Bauer after claiming that he impregnated her during an assault and then forced her to abort the child, is now facing 16 years in prison for one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices. Records also indicate that she was never actually pregnant, and therefore never had an abortion. In this context, “fraudulent schemes and artifices” is described as obtaining a benefit under false pretenses.
In a video statement addressing the changes against his one-time accuser, Bauer recounted his history with Esemonu, beginning with a one-night stand in December 2020.
Criminal charges have been brought against my accuser pic.twitter.com/x9QDQbRvOX
— Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) (@BauerOutage) April 16, 2024
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“We had one plain sexual encounter…nothing that could be considered remotely rough,” Bauer said. “She initiated it but don’t take my word for it, take hers.” He then displayed screenshots of text messages he had received from Esemonu the morning after their hookup, “explaining why she came onto me and for months afterwards, she repeatedly requested to sleep with me again.”
“At one point she had requested a sample of my sperm so she could have my child whenever she wanted to in the future,” Bauer added.
Following the encounter, Esemonu filed a civil suit in Arizona in 2023 claiming that Bauer had held a knife to her throat and choked her until she passed out, at which point he sexually assaulted her. She also claimed that she had become pregnant.
Bauer countersued, denying any wrongdoing and claiming that Esemonu had demanded $1.6 million to terminate the pregnancy. At the time, he had refused to pay the full amount, but he provided her with $8,761 related to the procedure. He also alleged that Esemanu had only hired a lawyer after another woman named Lindsey Hill had gone public with her own assault accusations.
“She then demanded $3.6 million and claimed I forced her to have an abortion, leaving her emotionally devastated and irretrievably damaged by it,” Bauer said. “But here’s the thing. She never had an abortion because she has never been pregnant, and that’s corroborated by her own medical records.”
“When I refused to pay her the $3.6 million she was asking for, she made up a bogus sexual assault claim and filed a civil suit against me.”
Bauer went on to point out that Esemonu has filed more than 10 sexual assault and harassment reports against other men.
“Her Mo is clear: lie to men to get their money, extort who she must, and when they refuse to pay, stop paying or stop giving her what she wants, go to the police, accuse them of sexual assault, and file a civil suit against them to retaliate,” he concluded.
Bauer also pointed back to his legal battle with Hill, which ended when both their suits were “withdrawn with prejudice” and neither side received money from the other.
After that settlement, Bauer released a similar video exposing receipts of Hill’s text messages, in which she told friends that the star pitcher would be her “next victim” and bragged that she “already had [her] hooks in.”
After Hill’s allegations were made public, Bauer was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by Major League Baseball and did not play for the remainder of the 2021 season. The 194-game suspension placed on him left him unable to finish out his $100 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The team officially released him in 2023.
Since then, he has played baseball in Japan and Mexico after every MLB team refused to sign him. In light of the new legal developments, Bauer now hopes to return to the American league.
HEY WAIT A MINUTE – just like the corrupt DA in the Duke lacrosse case who ultimately faced criminal charges AND SERVED TIME… now criminal charges have been brought in this case – against the accuser FELONY FRAUD – she lied to the authorities after conspiring with a friend to… https://t.co/Zd1TeJdKEg
— The Biz Doc (@TomEllsworth) April 17, 2024
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