Singer Nick Cartermember of youth gang back street kidsfiled in a court in Beverly Hills (California, USA) this Thursday. Alleged rape and physical assault on 17-year-old autistic fan After a concert during a band tour in 2001.

The woman, whose name is Shannon “Shay” Ruth (39), said at a press conference after she made the case official. presented with three other victims that they preferred to remain anonymous, but also condemned being raped by Carter as a child.

“The last 21 years have been filled with the pain, confusion, frustration, shame and self-harm that are the direct result of being raped by Nick Carter,” Ruth said tearfully as she recalled the incident.

on the bus

The described incident occurred after attending a Backstreet Boys performance in Tacoma city (Washington state, USA) and the artist will invite him to take the bus Seeing you line up for signature.

According to the statement of the plaintiff, what happened afterwards, Carter forced him to drink alcohol and put him on a bed. inside the bus where he physically assaulted and raped her.

“I remember when he raped me, he called me ‘a retarded bitch,’ and he grabbed me and left bruises on my arm,” Ruth said, adding that she was a virgin at the time. infected with human papillomavirus and that the other three plaintiffs condemned the same situation.

The victim concluded by claiming that, despite her “autistic and cerebral palsy”, her experience with Carter was “the most defining event” in her life.

Ruth was supported at the press conference by her lawyer, Mark Boskovich, for whom the purpose of the case was for her. ‘Stop’ Nick Carter ‘attacking more youth and women’ and show that the music industry “can’t keep looking the other way”.

“We hope anyone who has been sexually assaulted by Carter will call or email us,” Boskovich said.

previous accusation

In 2017, the musician also accused of rape by singer Melissa SchumanA former member of the Dream group, in an incident that would have occurred twenty years ago but ultimately had no criminal consequences for Carter.

This latest complaint comes just one month after his younger brother, Aaron Carter, was found lifeless in a bathtub in a Lancaster home (California, United States).