Thursday, March 28, 2024

Woman Beaten By Houston Astros Prospect Now Wishes She Would’ve Pressed Charges

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Danry Vasquez and Fabiana Perez
Danry Vasquez and Fabiana Perez

*The woman who was captured on camera being severely beaten by her former fiance and Houston Astros prospect Danry Vasquez is speaking out about the incident, expressing regret over her decision not to press charges, and admitting she thought at the time that he was “the only person I’ll ever find.”

Fabiana Perez told Univision that the two had been together for six years and were engaged at the time she was assaulted by the Corpus Christi Hooks player after a practice in August 2016. The brutal attack only gained attention this week after TMZ published the surveillance footage on Wednesday.

Perez stayed with Vasquez for several months after the brutal beating. In hindsight, however, Perez said she would’ve handled things differently.

“I watched this video and think to myself, how could I ever let this happen to me? Why didn’t I do anything?” the 21-year-old said in Spanish in an interview Tuesday with Univision.

“May God forgive him. He knows what he did. He wronged me, and at the time I forgave him, but if I had the knowledge I have now, I would have made a different decision,” Perez added.

Perez also had a message for those who criticized her for staying with Vasquez despite the abuse.

“It’s true what they say: you need to walk a mile in someone’s shoes to know how you’d feel in their situation. People don’t know the stuff that I lived, people don’t know the fear that I suffered,” she said. “A lot of what you see in that footage, I don’t remember. I see the video now and remember moments of the situation, but you really don’t know how you would feel.”

The former couple split up months after the attack, and Perez said she hasn’t had contact with the ballplayer since April; Vasquez married a different woman.

Perez said she wanted to tell other victims of domestic violence to understand their partners’ actions can’t be justified.

“When you’re going through it you think this is the only person I’ll ever find,” Perez said. “But I want to tell other women that are going through something like this that it isn’t true.

“You’ll get through this and see my testimony as proof that violence isn’t love.”

Vasquez was fired by his Pennsylvania team shortly after the video’s release.

Officials with the Lancaster Barnstormers, an independent league baseball team, told the Caller-Times the video has opened their eyes and that they will change their process when signing players.

“We didn’t do research within the police department for any records like that and this has definitely opened our eyes,” Reynolds said. “This has definitely opened our eyes and know we have to change our process when we are signing new players to our team.”

Vasquez was part of the Houston Astros organization from 2013-16 and was released after the 2016 misdemeanor domestic violence charge. The Astros is a parent club for the Corpus Christi Hooks.

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