Melissa Schuman has moved to sue Nick Carter for alleged sexual assault and battery 5 years after Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file prices towards the Backstreet Boys singer.
Schuman, a former member of the 2000s lady group Dream, submitted a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Carter of sexually assaulting her in 2002 in Santa Monica when he was 22 and she or he was 18, in response to courtroom paperwork reviewed by the Los Angeles Instances.
Within the grievance, Schuman alleges that Carter drugged her and raped her after she informed him “again and again” that she didn’t need to have intercourse till marriage. She additionally claims that Carter carried out oral intercourse on her “towards her will” and “demanded” she carry out oral intercourse on him after she refused to take action.
Schuman alleges that Carter proceeded to “manipulate and torment her” after he raped her, texting her, “Why did you make me try this?” and calling her a “manipulative b—.”
Carter’s legal professional, Liane Okay. Wakayama, mentioned in an announcement to TMZ and Rolling Stone that Schuman “has been peddling this story for a few years, however her allegation was false when she first made it again in 2017 — and it nonetheless is.” Wakayama dismissed the lawsuit as a “PR stunt” and accused Schuman of “plotting to wreck, defame and extort” Carter.
In an announcement supplied to The Instances, Schuman mentioned, “I’ve confronted extraordinary backlash for standing up for myself; I’m not the primary, nevertheless my intention is that I’m the final.”
“It’s time that highly effective figures within the music business get the message that they’ll now not afford to allow and defend sexual predators,” she added. “I’m combating to make the music business a safer place to work and carry out.”
In 2018, Schuman informed Santa Monica police that Carter raped her, however prosecutors opted to not pursue the case as a result of the statute of limitations for the alleged crime expired in 2013. Schuman notes in her new lawsuit that she is now ready “for the primary time in over a decade” to take authorized motion towards Carter as a result of the statute of limitations window for grownup survivors of sexual assault opened this 12 months.
Carter beforehand denied Schuman’s rape allegations in 2017 after she claimed in a weblog put up that “he was relentless, refusing to take my no’s for a solution.”
“He didn’t pay attention,” she wrote within the weblog put up. “He didn’t care.”
On the time, Carter mentioned he was “shocked and saddened” by Schuman’s allegations and claimed Schuman “by no means expressed” to him that what occurred between them “was not consensual.”
Schuman isn’t the one girl who has accused Carter of sexual assault.
In December, Shannon “Shay” Ruth filed a civil sexual battery lawsuit accusing Carter of assaulting her and infecting her with HPV on a Backstreet Boys tour bus when he was 21 and she or he was 17. Carter later countersued Ruth and known as her “a liar.”
Schuman is in search of unspecified damages and “additional reduction because the courtroom could deem correct.”
“Carter used his function, standing, and energy as a widely known singer to realize entry to, groom, manipulate, exploit and sexually assault” Schuman, the grievance reads. “In consequence …. Schuman has suffered extreme emotional, bodily and psychological misery.”
