A fourth girl has come ahead accusing Nick Carter of sexual misconduct.
In a brand new lawsuit, filed final week in Nevada, a girl named Laura Penly claims the Backstreet Boys singer sexually assaulted her and gave her a sexually transmitted illness that led to cervical most cancers. Carter has vehemently denied the allegations.
Penly alleges in court docket paperwork that she met Carter, now 45, in late 2004 when she was 19 years previous and he was in his mid-20s, in keeping with a number of stories.
She claims within the lawsuit that they’d a “sexually intimate relationship and would see one another roughly each few weeks” when she visited Los Angeles.
The 2 allegedly had consensual intercourse a number of occasions. Nonetheless, per the court docket paperwork, Carter allegedly “refused” to put on a condom, insisting he was “clear” of STDs.
Penly additional claims that she by no means had unprotected intercourse earlier than assembly the musician.
In keeping with the lawsuit, Penly went to see Carter at his Los Angeles condo in early 2005. When she arrived, she allegedly instructed him that she didn’t need to have intercourse and simply wished to hang around.
He allegedly “instructed her ‘no’ as a result of the one motive she was there was to have intercourse,” per the paperwork.
Penly alleges within the lawsuit that Carter then picked her up and “forcefully” assaulted her on his mattress regardless of her “saying ‘no’ a number of occasions.”
She claims he didn’t put on a condom through the alleged rape.
Per the lawsuit, the singer allegedly tried to silence Penly, telling her that nobody would imagine her if she got here ahead.
Nonetheless, a number of months later, the boy band member allegedly apologized and requested to see her once more.
She claims within the lawsuit that he sexually assaulted her a second time after she agreed to fulfill with him.
Penly additional alleges within the court docket paperwork that Carter “contaminated” her with “numerous sexually transmitted ailments, together with the human papillomavirus (generally often called HPV), a sexually transmitted an infection recognized to trigger well being issues equivalent to cervical most cancers.”
She allegedly examined constructive for chlamydia and gonorrhea in July 2005. The docs additionally discovered cancerous cells which she believes stemmed from an HPV an infection.
The next month, she “was identified with Stage 2 Cervical Most cancers and needed to bear quite a few therapies.”
Penly allegedly handled “extreme emotional misery, bodily anguish, medical points, intimacy points, and different complicated trauma” on account of the prognosis and alleged assault.
She is searching for damages and calls for a jury trial.
Carter’s authorized group has vehemently denied the accusations, telling Web page Six that they plan to “struggle” the lawsuit.
“Nick doesn’t recall ever even assembly Laura Penly. He actually by no means had any romantic or sexual relationship together with her. Ever,” his legal professionals mentioned in an announcement.
“That is simply extra of the identical nonsense from the gang of conspirators and their legal professionals who proceed to abuse the justice system to attempt to spoil Nick Carter. It’s drawn from the identical predictable playbook – lie in wait for many years till Mr. Carter is celebrating knowledgeable milestone, then disguise behind litigation privilege to make completely false claims in an try to inflict most harm on Nick and his household.”
They recommended that Penly was in search of a payout, claiming she “has a documented historical past of economic and authorized hassle, has filed for chapter, and has been sued for fraud.”
In November 2017, Dream singer Melissa Schuman alleged that Carter raped her in 2003 when she was 18 and he was 22. She formally sued him for sexual assault and battery in April 2023.
The “Everyone” singer has denied her allegations, alleging that Schuman “by no means expressed to [him] whereas [they] have been collectively or at any time since that something [they] did was not consensual.”
In December 2022, one other girl, Shannon Ruth, additionally sued Carter for sexual battery, claiming he raped her on his tour bus in 2001. She was 17 on the time of the alleged assault.
Then, in August 2023, a 3rd accuser got here ahead claiming Carter assaulted her when she was simply 15. She claimed he “knowingly supplied alcohol and medicines” to the then-minor earlier than the alleged assault.
The accuser’s mom allegedly reported the incident to the police, who investigated however discovered no grounds to maneuver ahead with expenses, per Carter’s authorized group.
The “Going through the Music and Dwelling to Speak About It” writer has denied all of the allegations. He countersued each Ruth and Schuman for defamation.
Should you or somebody you understand is affected by any of the problems raised on this story, name the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.
