Former pop singer Melissa Schuman says in a new court filing that the recently released docuseries Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter – which features Schuman describing her alleged 2003 rape at the hands of Nick Carter – led another accuser to reach out to her with claims that the Backstreet Boys singer sexually abused her too. “Just last month, Investigation Discovery aired a four-part docuseries in which plaintiff Schuman and other survivors were interviewed, after which plaintiff Schuman was contacted by another woman who disclosed that defendant Carter sexually assaulted her as well,” the new filing submitted in Los Angeles County Superior Court reads. Asked to elaborate on the unidentified woman’s claims, Schuman’s lawyer Karen Barth Menzies tells Rolling Stone that the new accuser gave her identity and enough “specific details” to appear “credible” and warrant mention to the court.
“To me, the credibility includes the fact that she came forward not anonymously to Melissa but privately to Melissa. This is not just some nameless, faceless person,” Barth Menzies says. “Nobody invites this.
It’s not something fun to talk about. She is a real person.” The lawyer says the new accuser, who alleges an assault after 2003, may eventually give testimony in support of Schuman’s litigation.
She was mentioned to show the court that accusers “continue to come forward,” the lawyer says. That’s important because Carter is pushing for a suspension .