Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter faces third sexual assault lawsuit

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Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter.On Monday (August 28) an unnamed accuser, who used the initials A.R., filed a lawsuit in Las Vegas claiming that she was assaulted multiple times when she was 15.She claimed the incidents happened multiple times on a yacht and once on the back of a tour bus in 2003 when Carter was 23, according to Billboard.In the lawsuit, she alleged that Carter “knowingly provided alcohol and drugs” and assaulted her “despite her repeated refusals and requests for him to stop”.She also claimed the incident left her with sexually-transmitted diseases and “severe emotional distress, physical anguish, intimacy issues, and other complex trauma”.“The impacts of Carter’s sexual abuse are ceaseless, causing plaintiff severe emotional distress, physical anguish, intimacy issues, and other complex trauma,” the accuser’s lawyers wrote.In a response statement, Carter’s lawyers described the new accusations as “ridiculous,” saying they had been investigated and rejected as “meritless” at the time.“Now she’s at it yet again,” Carter’s lawyer, Dale Hayes Jr, said in the statement. “But repeating the same false allegations in a new legal complaint doesn’t make them any more true.

Nick is looking forward to the evidence being presented and the truth about these malicious schemes coming to light.”The first incident was alleged to have occurred in August 2003, when Carter “directed” A.R. – who said she was intoxicated and that she did not consent – to go into the cabin of his yacht and convinced her into oral sex and he “penetrated her vagina with his genitals”.Another alleged assault took place on the yacht a month after, during which Carter allegedly “enticed three other men” to watch them have sex.A.R.