After months of horrific allegations of sexual misconduct, The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman has been today been taken to court on in a trio of states on allegations of rape, human trafficking and more by a former New Zealand nanny of he and musician Amanda Palmer’s son.

Neil Gaiman, the prolific author of 'The Sandman' and other works, was accused in a lawsuit Monday of violent sexual abuse of a babysitter.

The suits brought by Scarlett Pavlovich come after Gaiman, 64, was recently accused in a New York Magazine cover story of sexually assaulting, abusing, and forcing at least eight women into sex