The plaintiff is seeking damages and a court order prohibiting Werner and the record labels “from future unlawful business practices including, but not limit to, exposing minors and vulnerable adults to sexual abuse and exploitation,” the lawsuit says.
Attorney Karen Barth Menzies said in a statement to The Washington Post that the music industry is complicit in enabling the singer’s alleg criminal behavior.
“It takes a network of people to aid and protect the artists who commit these heinous acts. In order for there to be meaningful changes in the music industry, we have to do more than just hold the prators accountable,” she said.
She add that record companies should
Be “forc to acknowlge the crimes they allow to occur, and in telegram database some instances facilitate, and we have to force them to take responsibility for permitting and profiting from outrageous criminal behavior.”
The lawsuit, which was fil in Nassau County Supreme Court on Long Island, N.Y, says Doe first met Warner after a concert in 1995, when she was 16. Warner invit her and another underage girl into the tour bus where he question them about their ages and school grades, and later perform “various acts of criminal sexual conduct upon Plaintiff,” the lawsuit claims.
After the assault the plaintiff was “in pain, scar, upset, humiliat and confus.” Warner threaten to kill her and her family if she told anyone about what happen, the lawsuit add.
After the first alleg assault
Warner began calling her at home, soliciting her to send the direction of the link and its destination explicit sexual photos of her and her friends, the lawsuit says. Soon after, the teenager began using drugs and alcohol, the lawsuit says, and would continue to abuse substances in the following years, the suit add.
Later that year, Warner allegly sexually assault her again.
In 1999, then-19-year-old Doe met with Warner at several of cell phone data his concerts, where he “continu to groom and sexually assault Plaintiff for the next 4 weeks during this tour” by exerting psychological control and manipulation, the lawsuit claims.
