20-year-old influencer Clavicular (real name Braden Peters) is facing three criminal charges out of Orleans District Court in Massachusetts. An attorney from YouTube channel DumbedDownLaw broke down the case in a recent video, explaining why the case carries real prison exposure if prosecutors can prove their allegations.
The charges stem from an incident at Peters’s family home on Morris Island in Chatham on May 23, 2025, involving a then-17-year-old girl. A clerk magistrate found probable cause on September 4, a complaint was filed, and a summons went out September 8. Peters has not been arrested; he is scheduled for arraignment on October 14.
The Allegations
According to the police narrative, the girl had been communicating with Peters on Instagram and had appeared in paid online video content with him before traveling to his Cape Cod home. She told investigators Peters knew she was 17 but told her to say she was 18 for viewers, and to claim the vodka she was drinking was water.
She said she felt pressured to drink, became heavily intoxicated, and that the two kissed on camera before further intimate contact after the broadcast ended. She said she fell asleep and woke up to Peters having intercourse with her without her consent. No forensic exam was conducted afterward.
Breaking Down the Charges
The most serious charge, SA under Massachusetts General Law Chapter 265, Section 22B, carries up to 20 years in prison. Because Massachusetts sets the age of consent at 16, the case does not turn on the girl’s age but on whether she was capable of consenting.
As the attorney explained, “the fact that someone consumed drinks does not automatically mean that they lack the capacity to consent.” Prosecutors must prove her actual condition at the time and what Peters knew or should have known.
The second charge, administering drink to incapacitate someone for intercourse, carries at least 10 years up to life. However, it is harder to prove.
A third charge involves providing drinks to a minor.
Civil Case Runs Parallel
A related civil suit in Miami-Dade filed by the same accuser, also alleges a separate incident involving an unauthorized facial injection during a later broadcast. Peters has denied the allegations through his representative, who told NPR he “denies everything.”
