Backstreet Boy Nick Carter sued over alleged 2001 rape of teen


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2015 filepic of singer Nick Carter. A woman with cerebral palsy who claims she was raped as a teenager by the Backstreet Boys star has lodged a civil lawsuit against the singer. – Photo: AFP

A woman with cerebral palsy who claims she was raped as a teenager by Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter lodged a civil lawsuit against the singer in the United States on Thursday.

Shannon Ruth, now 39, said the singer forced her to perform oral sex on him on a tour bus after a show in 2001, and then raped her.

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