Washington, April 15 -- Singer Nick Carter has been accused of allegedly sexually assaulting a woman, who claims in a new lawsuit that she contracted STDs that led to cervical cancer.

In a lawsuit, Laura Penly alleged that the Backstreet Boys performer sexually assaulted her in approximately 2004 when she was around 19 years old. However, Carter denied the allegations in a statement released by his lawyers, reported People.

Penly alleged that their interactions with one another took place around December 2004 to February 2005 for a "sexually intimate relationship and they would see each other approximately every few weeks" when she visited Los Angeles.

She alleged that in early 2005, she'd gone to his apartment once again, but only wit...