A woman who alleges she was “drugged, raped and sodomized” by Evan Reed said she opposes the plea deal that ended a rape case against the former Detroit Tigers pitcher, who will serve a year on probation on a lesser assault charge.
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The 29-year-old will spend a year on probation after pleading no contest last month to misdemeanor aggravated assault.
The victim in the case spoke during his sentencing.
“I have sleepless nights because of what this so-called man did to me”, the woman said in court this morning.
The woman claimed she doesn’t remember what happened after she met Reed at the Royal Oak bar. Surveillance video from Motor City Casino Hotel showed Reed carrying the woman’s apparently limp body in his arms through the entrance the night before the alleged offenses.
On Friday, the woman begged for the case to go to trial, saying she was not consulted or informed of the plea deal until Reed had already accepted.
Wayne County District Judge Kenneth King dismissed the case once in August 2014 during the preliminary hearing, citing the victim’s lack of credibility, but Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy successfully appealed the decision and the charges were reinstated.
But when she left the hotel hours later, King said she didn’t appear incapacitated and she walked down six flights of stairs. “My life has never been the same since”, the woman told the court at Reed’s sentencing.
But she said “all parties” were honest while addressing the court Friday.
“An act of violence has been committed by Evan Reed”, she said. “Let it be known that I am none of these things”.
“There was nothing wrong with her gate”, King said before initially dismissing the charges.
A no contest plea isn’t an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing.
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Reed is a free agent after pitching for the Tigers and their Triple-A team in Toledo last season.
