Darcy Adanna Esemonu, woman who accused Trevor Bauer of sexual assault, indicted for fraud in Arizona

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 acquire a profit from … Trevor Anthony Bauer via fraudulent pretenses, illustration, guarantees, or materials omissions,” in response to an indictment dated March 19 and filed Monday within the Superior Court docket of Arizona in Maricopa County. Esemonu additionally “knowingly did acquire or sought to acquire property or companies … via a menace to sooner or later expose a secret or an asserted truth in a social media message or in another method” involving one other particular person, in response to the indictment. That particular person shouldn’t be related to Bauer, his lawyer instructed ESPN.

Esemonu didn’t reply to messages searching for 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.

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 scenario as “a single sexual encounter” that “was consensual.” Bauer countersued Esemonu for fraud, saying she was trying to harass and extort cash from him within the wake of comparable allegations made by three different girls.

In a press release offered to ESPN by his legal professionals, Bauer stated 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 swimsuit in opposition to me.”

Attorneys listed for Esemonu in her lawsuit didn’t reply to messages searching for remark.

Esemonu reported the alleged assault to the Scottsdale Police Division in December 2022, per week after she filed the swimsuit in opposition to Bauer.

In keeping with police reviews obtained by ESPN, when Esemonu was interviewed by a detective following her allegation of sexual assault, she “initially acknowledged 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 response to the report. The detective added that the medical data she had offered “don’t point out” whether or not she “was in truth pregnant.”

In January 2023, one in every of Bauer’s attorneys, Anne Chapman, additionally contacted the Scottsdale Police Division to file a prison criticism accusing Esemonu of “theft by extortion.” In keeping with that criticism, 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 obtained an unprecedented suspension by MLB following allegations of sexual assault by a lady in California and at the least two others. Bauer has denied their allegations.