Backstreet Boy Slice Carter Sued for Alleged Rape of 17-365 days-Frail Lady On Tour Bus

Slice Carter of Backstreet Boys during 2005 MuchMusic Video Awards – Recount at CHUM CITY TV Building in Toronto, Canada. MARC ANDREW DELEY/FILMMAGIC

Backstreet Boys Member Slice Carter is facing a brand contemporary bid he raped a 17-365 days-worn lady on a bus during the boy band’s Shadowy & Blue concert tour in 2001.

Accuser Shannon “Shay” Ruth filed a sexual battery lawsuit in Clark County, Nevada, on Thursday claiming Carter picked her out of a line of followers wanting for autographs at the Tacoma Dome in Washington and invited her to affix him on his tour bus when she became an unsuspecting virgin.

Ruth, who says she lives with autism and cerebral palsy, alleges Carter, who would were 21 at the time, fed her a pink drink dubbed “VIP juice” that tasted alcoholic, ordered her to catch on her knees, pulled down his pants and insisted she scheme oral sex on him. She alleges he advised her on simple how one can proceed even supposing she became crying.

Now 39, Ruth alleges Carter, who confronted the same allegation within the previous that became no longer prosecuted, led her to a mattress, “pushed” her down and forcefully eliminated her pants when she resisted. Carter then allegedly attempted to orally copulate Ruth as she “begged him to cease,” the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone states.

“Carter knowledgeable her to ‘Shh!’ as he laid on top of her and acknowledged it will most definitely be our ‘special secret,’” the submitting continues, alleging that Carter vaginally penetrated Ruth.

“The final 21 years were crammed with concern, confusion, frustration, shame, and self-rupture which will most definitely be an instantaneous result of Slice Carter raping me,” Ruth acknowledged at a press conference alongside with her felony legitimate Sign Boskovich in Beverly Hills on Thursday.

“Despite the incontrovertible truth that I’m autistic and dwell with cerebral palsy, I imagine nothing has affected me extra …than what Slice Carter did to me,” Ruth acknowledged, struggling to withhold assist tears.

She claimed Carter grew to turn out to be “injurious and threatening” when she knowledgeable him she became going to file the incident. “After he raped me, I be aware him calling me a ‘retarded bitch’ and grabbing me and leaving bruises on my arm,” she acknowledged.

“Carter tried to dismay me into silence,” she claimed, asserting he knowledgeable her “he’d flip other folks against me because he became Slice Carter and had the energy to fracture my lifestyles.”

“I felt love I had nowhere to flip,” she acknowledged. “I in point of truth believed if I knowledgeable someone, I would fling to jail.”

Carter denied the allegations through a commentary launched by his felony legitimate Thursday night.

“This bid about an incident that supposedly took situation bigger than Two decades within the past is no longer simplest legally meritless but additionally entirely unfaithful,” the commentary from felony legitimate Michael Holtz reads. “Unfortunately, for several years now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into making spurious allegations about Slice – and these allegations contain modified many times and materially over time. No person needs to be fooled by a press stunt orchestrated by an opportunistic felony legitimate – there might be nothing to this bid in any scheme, which we fracture no longer contain any doubt the courts will snappy perceive.”

The lawsuit comes after Melissa Schuman, a faded member of teen-pop crew Dream, stepped forward in 2017 and accused Carter of sexually assaulting her in 2003, across the time they were shooting the 2004 made-for-TV film “The Hollow,” when she became 18 years worn.

Los Angeles County prosecutors investigated Schuman’s bid and finally declined to file a case, asserting the allegation became outside the ten-365 days statute of boundaries.

In a weblog post that’s no longer stuffed with life, Schuman acknowledged Carter invited her and a chum to his Santa Monica notify for a “casual hangout.” Schuman acknowledged she also became a virgin at the time and that Carter allegedly poured shots and then took her to a leisure room the build he performed oral sex on her over her protests.

“I knowledgeable him to cease, but he didn’t. So I grew to turn out to be off the leisure room light so I wouldn’t get hang of out about something. He stored turning the sunshine assist on because he knowledgeable me he wished to explore at me,” she wrote.

“I’m skittish and saddened by Ms. Schuman’s accusations. Melissa below no circumstances expressed to me whereas we were collectively or at any time since that something we did became no longer consensual,” Carter acknowledged in a commentary to Rolling Stone at the time. “This is the first that I’m hearing about these accusations, virtually two a few years later. It’s contrary to my nature and every thing I withhold pricey to intentionally trigger any person discomfort or rupture.”

The contemporary lawsuit filed Thursday also alleges three ladies identified simplest as Jane Does contain accused Carter of similar habits. It claims Jane Doe 2 became a 15-365 days-worn lady at the time of her alleged abuse in 2003 and says she contracted HPV from Carter, an allegation also made by Ruth.

Jane Doe 1 equally alleges abuse in 2003, and Jane Doe 3 alleges she became sexually assaulted by Carter at a condo social gathering in Key West, Florida, in 2006, the submitting states.

Boskovich acknowledged during the click conference that the lawsuit is withholding the ladies’s names “to withhold their privacy till they’re ready to talk themselves.” He acknowledged his team has interviewed the ladies.

Ruth’s civil action is calling for financial damages for previous and future concern and suffering to boot to punitive damages in an amount to be decided at trial.

From Rolling Stone US.