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ABC Pulls Backstreet Boys Special Amid Nick Carter Allegations
Content warning: This communicative discusses intersexual assault.
Nick Carter has returned to the signifier a time aft being accused of raping a teen much than 20 years ago.
The 42-year-old performed with his popular radical Backstreet Boys astatine Z100's 2022 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball successful New York City Dec. 9, 1 time after Shannon "Shay" Ruth, a 39-year-old pistillate with autism and cerebral palsy, filed a intersexual artillery suit against the vocalist successful Nevada. No transgression charges person been filed.
Nick, who denies the allegations, was each smiles arsenic helium took the signifier astatine the Jingle Ball concert, performing with his bandmates hits from the radical specified as "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)," "I Want It That Way" and "As Long arsenic You Love Me." Backstreet Boys besides sang a screen of Wham!'s 1984 opus "Last Christmas," which is featured connected their caller vacation album A Very Backstreet Christmas.
In her lawsuit, Ruth accuses Carter of raping her successful 2001, erstwhile she was 17 years old, on Backstreet Boys' tour bus following a performance successful Tacoma, Washington. She besides states that she was a virgin earlier her brushwood with the vocalist and that she contracted HPV aft the incident.
The singer's lawyer issued a statement the aforesaid time the suit was filed. "This assertion astir an incidental that supposedly took spot much than 20 years agone is not lone legally meritless but besides wholly untrue," said the lawyer, Michael Holtz. "Unfortunately, for respective years now, Ms. Ruth has been manipulated into making mendacious allegations astir Nick—and those allegations person changed repeatedly and materially implicit time."
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Backstreet Boys are acceptable to execute astatine different iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, Kiss 100's successful Boston, Dec. 11. While Carter's information successful the performance bid has not been affected by the caller allegations against him, ABC has canceled a planned broadcast of their tv peculiar A Very Backstreet Holiday in aftermath of the news.
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This is not the archetypal clip Carter has faced intersexual battle allegations. In 2017, pop vocalist Melissa Schuman accused him of raping her 15 years prior, erstwhile she was 18. Carter denied her allegations. No transgression charges were filed. In 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office stated successful tribunal documents, "The statute of limitations expired successful 2013. Therefore, an investigation of the strengths and weaknesses of the grounds is not warranted and the substance is declined."
For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.
