The Newsboys’ federal lawsuit is pushing back strongly against past allegations that a woman was raped by a Newsboys lighting technician and it asserts that the report was false and contradicted by police findings at the time.
On Thursday, June 19, 2025, The Roys Report (TRR) released information alleging that in 2014 former DC Talk member and Newsboys frontman Michael Tait drugged a woman and witnessed her rape by a Newsboys lighting technician.
In its report, TRR provided hotel surveillance footage, a police report, and multiple testimonials from witnesses.
A woman who chose to be referred to as “Nicole” was a 23-year-old who worked for evangelist Nick Hall’s Pulse Evangelism on Dec. 16, 2014, the night she claims she was raped by Newsboys lighting technician Matt Brewer.
Read the full account here.
The Newsboy’s lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee earlier this week, argues that articles published by TRR in 2025 and 2026 misrepresented a 2014 incident involving a woman identified as “Nicole.”
According to the lawsuit, the woman told police shortly after the encounter that it was consensual.
“She does, agree, though that any interaction that she would have had with Matt would have been consensual,” the Fargo Police report states, as quoted in the complaint.
The lawsuit claims those statements...
The Newsboys’ federal lawsuit is pushing back strongly against past allegations that a woman was raped by a Newsboys lighting technician and it asserts that the report was false and contradicted b...