Backstreet Boy Nick Carter Sued for Alleged Rape of 17-Year-Old Girl On Tour Bus



By Nancy Dillon

Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter is going done a marque caller assertion helium raped a 17-year-antique woman connected a autobus passim the lad band’s Black & Blue performance excursion successful 2001.

Accuser Shannon “Shay” Ruth filed a intersexual artillery suit successful Clark County, Nevada, connected Thursday claiming Carter picked her retired of a enactment of fans seeking autographs connected the Tacoma Dome successful Washington and invited her to articulation him connected his circuit autobus erstwhile she was an unsuspecting virgin.

Ruth, who says she lives with autism and cerebral palsy, alleges Carter, who could had been 21 connected the time, fed her a reddish portion dubbed “VIP juice” that tasted alcoholic, ordered her to get connected her knees, pulled down his pants and insisted she execute oral intercourse connected him. She alleges helium told her connected a mode to proceed contempt the information that she go crying.

Now 39, Ruth alleges Carter, who confronted a comparable allegation wrong the past that go not prosecuted, led her to a mattress, “driven” her down and forcefully eliminated her pants portion she resisted. Carter past allegedly attempted to orally copulate Ruth arsenic she “begged him to prevent,” the suit received with the assistance of Rolling Stone states.

“Carter informed her to ‘Shh!’ arsenic helium laid connected apical of her and said it would beryllium our ‘unique mystery,'” the submitting maintains, alleging that Carter vaginally penetrated Ruth.

“The remaining 21 years were filled with ache, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-damage which mightiness beryllium an instantaneous effect of Nick Carter raping me,” Ruth stated astatine a property convention with her lawyer Mark Boskovich successful Beverly Hills connected Thursday.

“Even adjacent though I’m autistic and enactment with cerebral palsy, I judge arsenic existent with not thing has affected maine much …than what Nick Carter did to me,” Ruth stated, suffering to support little backmost tears.

She claimed Carter grew to go “nasty and dangerous” whilst she instructed him she go going to record the incident. “After helium raped me, I instrumentality into relationship him calling maine a ‘retarded complain’ and grabbing maine and leaving bruises connected my arm,” she said.

“Carter tried to scare maine into silence,” she claimed, pronouncing helium told her “he’d crook radical successful absorption to maine owed to the information helium became Nick Carter and had the vigor to harm my existence.”

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“I felt similar I had obscurity to show,” she said. “I sincerely believed if I informed each of us, I mightiness sojourn prison.”

Carter denied the allegations thru a assertion released by mode of his lawyer Thursday night.

“This state astir an incidental that supposedly passed disconnected other than 20 years agone is not handiest legally meritless but additionally perfectly unfaithful,” the announcement from lawyer Michael Holtz reads. “Unfortunately, for respective years now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into making fake allegations astir Nick – and radical allegations person changed repeatedly and materially implicit the years. No 1 ought to beryllium fooled via a property stunt orchestrated by means of an opportunistic lawyer – determination is not thing to this assertion whatsoever, which we don't person immoderate uncertainty the courts volition speedy realize.”

The suit comes aft Melissa Schuman, a erstwhile subordinate of teenager-pop enactment Dream, stepped guardant successful 2017 and accused Carter of sexually assaulting her successful 2003, astir the clip they were shooting the 2004 made-for-TV movie “The Hollow,” erstwhile she was 18 years antique.

Los Angeles County prosecutors investigated Schuman’s assertion and successful the agelong tally declined to papers a case, announcing the allegation was outdoor the 10-year statute of limitations.

In a blog station that’s not lively, Schuman said Carter invited her and a chum to his Santa Monica residence for a “casual hangout.” Schuman said she additionally was a virgin connected the clip and that Carter allegedly poured photographs and past took her to a lavatory successful which helium carried retired oral intercourse connected her implicit her protests.

“I advised him to forestall, nevertheless helium didn’t. So I grew to go disconnected the toilet mild truthful I wouldn’t spot immoderate thing. He stored turning the airy again connected due to the fact that helium informed maine helium wanted to observe me,” she wrote.

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“I americium greatly amazed and saddened by mode of Ms. Schuman’s accusations. Melissa by nary means expressed to maine whilst we had been collectively oregon astatine immoderate clip erstwhile you see that that immoderate we did turned into present not consensual,” Carter said successful a declaration to Rolling Stone connected the time. “This is the archetypal that I americium listening to astir those accusations, astir a agelong clip later. It is other to my quality and the full happening I sphere beloved to deliberately intent a idiosyncratic discomfort oregon damage.”

The caller suit filed Thursday additionally alleges 3 girls diagnosed champion arsenic Jane Does person accused Carter of comparable behavior. It claims Jane Doe 2 go a 15-year-antique pistillate astatine the clip of her alleged maltreatment successful 2003 and says she gotten smaller HPV from Carter, an allegation besides made by utilizing Ruth.