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Josh Salisbury

Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter sued for alleged sexual assault of 17-year-old girl in 2001

Nick Carter

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Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter has been sued for alleged sexual battery of a minor on the group’s tour bus in 2001.

In the civil lawsuit, first reported by showbiz site TMZ, Shannon Ruth, who was aged 17 at the time, claims she was invited by Carter, then 21, onto the tour bus after a concert in Tacoma, Washington.

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