A girl who accused former main league pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault has been indicted by a grand jury in Arizona on felony prices of fraudulent schemes and theft by extortion.
Darcy Adanna Esemonu “knowingly did get hold of a profit from … Trevor Anthony Bauer by the use of fraudulent pretenses, illustration, guarantees, or materials omissions,” in accordance with an indictment dated March 19 and filed Monday within the Superior Courtroom of Arizona in Maricopa County. Esemonu additionally “knowingly did get hold of or sought to acquire property or companies … by the use of a menace to sooner or later expose a secret or an asserted truth in a social media message or in some other method” involving one other particular person, in accordance with the indictment. That particular person will not be related to Bauer, his legal professional instructed ESPN.
Esemonu didn’t reply to messages in search of remark. The prosecutor listed on the indictment couldn’t be reached late Tuesday for remark.
An arraignment listening to within the case is scheduled for April 26 in Maricopa County.
Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has settled a authorized dispute with a girl who accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her in 2021, attorneys for each side confirmed on Monday.
Esemonu filed a lawsuit in opposition to Bauer in 2022, later up to date in 2023, alleging he sexually assaulted her in 2020, which led to an “unplanned being pregnant.” In court docket filings, Bauer’s attorneys described the state of affairs as “a single sexual encounter” that “was consensual.” Bauer countersued Esemonu for fraud, saying she was making an attempt to harass and extort cash from him within the wake of comparable allegations made by three different girls.
In an announcement offered to ESPN by his legal professionals, Bauer mentioned Esemonu demanded $3.6 million from him and “claimed I pressured her to have an abortion” and “once I refused to pay her the $3.6 million she was asking for, she made up a bogus sexual assault declare and filed a civil go well with in opposition to me.”
Attorneys listed for Esemonu in her lawsuit didn’t reply to messages in search of remark.
Esemonu reported the alleged assault to the Scottsdale Police Division in December 2022, every week after she filed the go well with in opposition to Bauer.
In line with police reviews obtained by ESPN, when Esemonu was interviewed by a detective following her allegation of sexual assault, she “initially said she had a miscarriage, however later referred to the miscarriage as an abortion.” She later instructed the detective she didn’t have an abortion, however miscarried simply earlier than going to a clinic situated in one other state, in accordance with the report. The detective added that the medical information she had offered “don’t point out” whether or not she “was actually pregnant.”
In January 2023, one among Bauer’s attorneys, Anne Chapman, additionally contacted the Scottsdale Police Division to file a legal grievance accusing Esemonu of “theft by extortion.” In line with that grievance, Chapman instructed police that Esemonu “had demanded monetary compensation from her shopper for a being pregnant and abortion that was alleged to be false.”
The Dodgers minimize ties with Bauer in January 2023 after the 2020 Cy Younger Award winner acquired an unprecedented suspension by MLB following allegations of sexual assault by a girl in California and not less than two others. Bauer has denied their allegations.
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