Nick Carter sued for alleged sexual assault of 17-year-old girl in 2001 - The Guardian

Backstreet Boys subordinate Nick Carter has been sued for intersexual artillery involving an incidental with a insignificant successful 2001.

According to the lawsuit, archetypal reported by TMZ and aboriginal obtained by Rolling Stone, Shannon Ruth, who was 17 astatine the time, claims she was invited by Carter, past 21, connected to the Backstreet Boys’ circuit autobus aft a performance successful Tacoma, Washington. Ruth besides spoke astatine a property conference today.

A root adjacent to Carter told TMZ the accusations are “categorically false” and that “Nick is focusing connected his household and mourning the decease of his brother”, vocalist and rapper Aaron Carter, who died past period astatine property 34.

Legal documents accidental Ruth, who has autism and cerebral palsy, was asked by Carter if she wanted a drink. When she asked for pome juice, helium offered her cranberry. She says the red-colored drink, which Carter called “VIP juice”, tasted “off”, but she drank it truthful arsenic not to beryllium rude. She present believes it was a substance of cranberry foodstuff and alcohol.

The suit claims that Carter past led Ruth to the circuit autobus bath and ordered her to execute oral enactment connected him. She says she cried passim portion helium kept instructing her.

Ruth says Carter past took her to a furniture and continued to sexually battle her, called her a “retarded small bitch” and said nary 1 would judge erstwhile she said she’d archer radical astir his behavior.

“Just due to the fact that Nick Carter is simply a personage does not mean that helium is excused from his crimes,” Ruth said astatine the property conference. “I americium a subsister and ever volition be.”

According to the documents, Ruth was a virgin astatine the clip and contracted HPV aft the encounter. She is present seeking damages.

These are not the archetypal allegations of intersexual battle against Carter. In 2018, Melissa Schuman, a erstwhile subordinate of the miss set Dream, publically claimed Carter forced her to person enactment “against my will” erstwhile helium was 22 and she was 18.

Carter denied the allegations, saying successful a statement: “I americium shocked and saddened by Ms Schuman’s accusations. Melissa ne'er expressed to maine portion we were unneurotic oregon astatine immoderate clip since that thing we did was not consensual … This is the archetypal that I americium proceeding astir these accusations, astir 2 decades later. It is contrary to my quality and everything I clasp beloved to intentionally origin idiosyncratic discomfort oregon harm.”

Schuman described being “traumatised” aft the attack, saying she initially “wanted to fastener it successful a container successful my caput and fto the memories dilatory suffocate arsenic clip went on”. She said she felt compelled to travel guardant aft seeing online “victim shaming” of an unnamed pistillate who accused Carter and a person of sexually assaulting her successful 2006. Carter’s typical said the pistillate “fabricated the claims against Nick for 1 elemental crushed – she was hoping to extort wealth from him”.

The Guardian has reached retired to Carter’s absorption for a response.