Another woman accused Nick Carter of sexual violence

Nick Carter, a member of the historic Bay Backstreet Boys, was sued for a new charge of sexual violence. To intent on the cause is Laura Penly, a woman who claims to have had a relationship with the singer in 2005 and to have been attacked on two different occasions.

The civil complaint, presented last week in Nevada, says that the abuses would take place when Penly was 19 years old and Carter 25. The woman declares that she had had consensual sexual relations with Carter on about three occasions, but says that one evening, after clarifying the desire to limit herself to watch a film, the singer would have ignored her refusal, saying that “the only reason was there to have sex”.

According to what we read in the complaint, Carter would then have “collected it from the ground and thrown on the bed” to force her to have sexual intercourse, despite its protests. The aggression, according to Penly, would have happened without the use of protections.

The legal document, ten pages long and obtained from Rolling Stonedescribes a second episode that took place about two months later. Carter would have apologized to Penly and asked to see her again. According to the woman, the singer would have invited her to an apartment that she believed was hers, in Hollywood Boulevard, where two friends were also located. There, he would have led her to a room and would have raped her again.

Penly's complaint is added to a series of accusations already moved against Carter by three other women, including Melissa Schuman, former member of the Pop Dream group. Schuman had presented a cause in California in 2022, claiming to have been drugged and raped by Carter in 2003, when he was 17 years old.

Carter's lawyers have strongly rejected all the accusations, calling them “without foundation”. To them, the four women involved would be part of a group of “conspirators” who aim to damage the singer's career, just as he celebrates the 25th anniversary of the album Millennium with the Backstreet Boys. Accusators firmly deny this reconstruction. Penly also claims to have been called to testify in a deposition relating to the other causes and to have suffered, since then, continuous harassment by fans of the singer and the band.

“This is the umpteenth absurdity of a band of conspirators and their lawyers, who abuse the judicial system to destroy the reputation of Nick Carter,” Liane K. Wakayama and Dale Hayes Jr. Rolling Stone. «It is a forecasting scheme: they wait for Mr. Carter to reach a milestone of the career and then launch false accusations with the intention of causing maximum damage to him. Nick does not remember ever having met Laura Penly. Of course, he never had a romantic or sexual relationship with her. Never. The plaintiff has a documented story of financial and legal problems behind him ».

In addition to Penly and Schuman, Shannon “Shay” Ruth and Ashley Repp also accused of sexual violence. Ruth claims to have been attacked on a tour bus in 2001, while Repp said he was raped on a yacht in 2003, when he was 15 years old. The latter, initially anonymous, revealed his identity in the documentary Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter.

Carter denied all the accusations and denounced the three women for defamation. However, last August, his request for compensation against Repp was rejected. So far, the singer has never been formally accused of any criminal offense in relation to the cases mentioned.

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