Backstreet Boy Nick Carter faced sexual assault allegations late last year when Shannon Ruth sued for damages for a alleged assault occurred in 2001 when he was 17. Carter has vehemently denied the allegations and is now fighting back, after filing a countersuit against Ruth and Melissa Schuman, also he claimed he was sexually assaulted by the singer in the early 2000s, claiming that the two women were involved in a plot against the banderista.
Nick Carter is seeking $2.35 million in damages for eastern time with the singer stating that Shannon Ruth’s December trial resulted from “a five-year-old conspiracy orchestrated by counter-defendants to harass, defame and extort money from Carter”. He added that Melissa Schuman and her father Jerome Shuman have been trying to extort money from him for years and have caused millions of dollars in lost income for him and the other members of the Backstreet Boys.
[T]The campaign has been launched and championed by the #MeToo movement since its inception when counter-defendant Melissa Schuman published a lewd blog post in November 2017 falsely claiming that Carter sexually assaulted her in 2003.
Nick Carter’s counterclaim claims Shannon Ruth was “vulnerable and very impressionable” and accuses the Schumans of recruiting her for their alleged scheme. The counterclaim continues:
[Melissa and Jerome Shuman] he groomed and trained Ruth, getting her to inflate her initial claim that she was abused by a third party, that she was physically abused by Carter, and finally that she was sexually assaulted by Carter.
According to the lawsuit Shannon Ruth filed in December, Nick Carter is accused of inviting Ruth, 17, onto his band’s tour bus in 2001 and possibly giving her alcohol, before leaving, assaulting the bus toilet, then a bed. . He said he contracted HPV afterwards.
Shannon Ruth’s attorney, Mark Boskovich, responded to Backstreet Boy’s lawsuit in a statement to ET, asking:
Why would anyone believe Nick Carter with his long history of abusing women? A jury will evaluate the evidence and decide.
This story includes the 2018 statement made by Melissa Schuman , a member of 2000s girl group Dream, who filed sexual assault charges against Nick Carter over an alleged early years incident. In this case, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against the Backstreet Boy, for tmz extension because under California law at the time, the statute of limitations for an alleged felony committed in 2003 expired in 2013.
Nick Carter noted in his court documents that independent investigations into the two women’s claims “have not led to any charges against Carter.”
Shannon Ruth’s lawsuit was filed in December, just over a month after Nick Carter’s younger brother Aaron Carter, with whom Nick had a complicated relationship. era found dead aged 34 . It was also just a week before Backstreet Boys went on the air. his first Christmas special , A real road trip, on ABC. The show was later pulled from the network’s broadcast schedule.
Source: Cinemablend
