Mercedes Carrera

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - Over six months after adult performer Mercedes Carrera and her husband Jason Whitney were arrested at their home in Rancho Cucamonga and charged with sexual assault against a minor and guns and drugs violations, a preliminary hearing is being held at the Rancho Cucamonga court to decide if there was enough "probable cause" evidence to initiate a trial.

Preliminary Hearing for Mercedes Carrera, Daemon Cins Begins (AVN)

Recording of investigator's interview with the alleged victim, Carrera's daughter, played for courtroom

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.-Mercedes Carrera and her partner Damon Cins sat in a San Bernardino County courtroom Thursday morning, as a prosecutor played an audio recording of the preteen girl they are accused of sexually abusing describe the alleged abuse in graphic detail. In an earlier public statement reported by AVN.com, Carrera said that the alleged victim is her nine-year-old daughter.

Carrerra and Cins have denied the allegations, but in audio recorded in January by San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy Steven Theis-who had been called by the nine-year-old's father-the girl gave graphic descriptions of sexual acts, which she referred to as "cuddle" sessions, which she told Theis were performed on her by her mother and Cins.

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RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.-After an all-day preliminary hearing in San Bernardino Superior Court on Thursday that centered around a graphic and dramatic audio recording of a nine-year-old girl describing her alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Mercedes Carrera and her partner Daemon Cins, Judge Ingrid Adamson Uhler ruled that there was enough evidence for the county to take the case to a jury trial.

Uhler dismissed two firearms charges against the couple, but held Carrera and Cins to answer for 16 counts, including multiple incidents of oral copulation as well as sexual penetration.

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In Italy there was case in a way similar a grup of kids told their parents the teacher "touched" them and one especially in the ass , the parents kept talking with their kids for over a month with a psychologist to amass evidence then they called the police , they arrested that teacher and a few other people possibly involved .In the prealiminary hearing the judge heard the psychologist with her hearing with the kids she taped along with their parents.
Among the questions were
did she touch you?
Yes
Where did she touch you?
Here indicating her ass.

Enough for a trial on many accounts for an entire bunch of teachers and a couple janitors for being passive when such things occurred in front of them.

Though in the trial the Police brought in the tapes of the surveillance cameras of the school , from the day the kids said they were abused and they found out that the teacher separated two kids who were arguing and "hit" very softly although firmly one of them in the back to push him away , nothing else happened , the janitor was there too , all the tapes showed similar situations there was absolutely nothing sexually related.

Aparently all the adults misinterpreted the touching , being afraid of abuse they literally didn't think about anything else and by interrogating the kids themselves they influenced them and they kept saying what made their parents happy , the psychologist was biased because she was always the same one questoning and interviewing the kids whereas the law requires one different psychologist per kid so that he/she cannot be influenced by the "matching" versions coming from parents and kids talking to each other , furthermore it is part of the psychologist job to try to separate fantasy from truth with especially designed question and find out if the kid has been influenced or not.

This didn't happen , even if there were actually abuses they messed up with evidence so bad it was useless and would have been very easily challenged by any lawyer, so the Judge dismissed the case.

I don't know what really happened here in the case of Mercedes , nor I know what are the requirements of the American laws in such cases about who actually questioned her kid , I assume they have been careful with this , but still a hearing is not a proper trial.

Edited by - LCF on 8/9/2019 8:50:13 AM

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Edited by - Shysta on 8/9/2019 2:14:55 PM

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I don't know what the outcome of this case will be nor who has done what. Like LCF, I am reminded of other cases where one parent manipulates a child to say things about the other parent. But, I am assuming such things are rare and I am inclined not to doubt a nine-year-old providing explicit details of abuse to a courtroom of people. Still, the case has a lot of ambiguous and complex elements. I hope justice is served one way or another and the child's wellbeing is a priority.

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And I as I've said before, I have no idea if Mercedes is guilty of the charges or not. That will be up to a jury (or judge if that is what she wants) to decide. Hopefully however the trial goes, the outcome is the right one based on the evidence.

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If this is true... poor, poor little girl...

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Kalief Browder sat in Rikers for 3 years for allegedly stealing a backpack (the evidence was shoddy) before the charges were eventually dropped because of said lack of evidence.

it often takes years to prosecute people who are clearly guilty, like the 4 years between when Martha Stewart was suspected. and then the nearly year wait between her arrest and trial.

Edited by - yourmomma on 2/17/2020 10:45:47 AM

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"A pretrial hearing in the Mercedes Carrera case has been postponed once again. The newly rescheduled date of May 1 pushes the start of the actual trial to sometime before July 1."

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Obviously some cases do take years to prepare because they are just that complex (Bernie Madoff, major terrorism case, massive corporate fraud, etc.), but most should be ready to with a year. Even the most backed up labs do not take 2+ years to run DNA if it is part of the evidence.

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There's an excellent documentary about the McMartin preschool abuse case witch-hunt on Oxygen network. Incompetent and overzealous amateur investigators goaded kids into making false accusations against PS teacher's and staff. I think that the DA would be pretty stupid to continue with charges without hard evidence against MC. I think she's is going down.

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The smear against the ex-husband as a 'fundamentalist christian' is ironic as her 'views' are so extreme they make most fundamentalists sound moderate in comparison.

That they found meth in the house is far from surprising.

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No word on why this latest delay took place. Some of the previous delays were asked for by her attorney, some by district attorney, some due to COVID-19. The pretrial hearing is now set for Aug 20th.

Edited by - killbillvol69 on 7/22/2020 6:42:22 PM

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Some people want to put a political spin on literally everything now.

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The pretrial hearing in the Mercedes Carrera criminal case concerning multiple child sexual abuse charges against her and her husband - which was supposed to happen Thursday morning at the Rancho Cucamonga courthouse in San Bernardino County, California - has been postponed yet again, this time until January 7, 2021.

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New pretrial hearing date is Feb 5 2021. She was arrested on Feb 1 2019.

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https://www.xbiz.com/news/257766/mercedes-carrera-pretrial-date-postponed-until-may

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It may be the case that a defendant is constitutionally entitled to a speedy trial but that is not an absolute. If the effects of the pandemic disrupt the processing of evidence or giving the best chance of making witnesses available, I guess that could be just cause for a judge to delay the pretrial. Unless the document indicates an objection from Carrera's lawyer against the postponement, I'm not sure there's a compelling argument from her (and husband's) side that a trial/pretrial has been delayed without cause. Remember that bail has not been denied by the judge either.

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Mercedes Carrera's Pretrial Hearing Postponed Again - this time postponed to June 4

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