I'd make a disclaimer that if the charges are true she can rot...but they've changed the charges so often I don't even know what the current charges are. But, yeah, if child abuse took place, and she was a part of it, screw her. Of course.
It's just really disturbing how long this has been going on though, and it's sad that people have stopped talking about it. There used to be more attention paid to the case, but it's dragged on (well, starting it has), that most people lost interest. We have one post about her here, from two years ago. Even Reddit - which seems stuck in the past, so I would have thought Half-KiA or Reddit KiA2 would mention it - haven't posted about it in three or four years, as far as I can tell.
Six fucking years she's been sitting in jail, apparently in some rather unpleasant conditions. They've already dropped a ton of the charges they used to detain her, before any trial even took place.
The whole thing stinks, and her life has been utterly ruined.
I mean, testimony of a ten year old girl is just about the definition of an unreliable witness. Add to that the parental dispute, and the possibility of coaching from the father (which, for the record, I don't condone, but do understand the desire to get your daughter out of an environment so close to drugs and porn), and reliability drops off even more.
I don't remember all the details, but I do think the girl made an accusation to the police, and that was a big part of the charges. Again, terrible if true, and those responsible would deserve to rot in jail...but hardly compelling enough to hold potentially innocent people in jail for six years on impossible bail.
I hate compounding charges. While I don't approve of the lifestyle, you had a bunch of things that didn't necessarily involve the child at all being used as evidence of child abuse. And, a personal hatred of mine, I believe they used the fact that there were illegal drugs to claim that they were also prohibited from guns, because they were criminals...despite not being found guilty yet.
Guns are not illegal. You shouldn't be able to charge someone for having a gun, even if you also find meth. Which, just to reiterate, I do not approve of. Don't do meth. Don't do porn. Don't do either in households with children. But you don't get to chain it all together and say the existence of each element means the guns were illegal and there was child abuse going on.
I know this is getting long, but last point. Marriage/child disputes are nasty. You can convince a kid who was never abused to make even true statements that paint a picture of abuse or neglect. Lawyers also tell you to lie and claim you were abused in divorce proceedings, I've heard from multiple people. Similar things are surely happening in custody disputes.
It's absurd to hold someone this long with, apparently, no actual evidence of the main crime. For all the porn, drugs, and guns "evidence," I haven't seen any allegation of the child being involved with the guns, porn, or drugs.
Yeah, the difficulty of Mercedes' situation is you have to keep your personal moralities and biases at bay as you try to assess the constitutionality of the situation. Lucky for us, we're better at doing that than leftists do.
Carrera probably lived a life of degeneracy and hedonism and most of us probably absolutely depises her lifestyle, but what she does personally doesn't matter. Are the facts of this case even fucking coherent? Was there any ACTUAL wrongdoing here, or are we trying to slap a bunch of shit together to increase the DA or prosecutor's win/loss record?
If you can't make a fucking case in six years you HAVE NO CASE. Let her go.
At this point it doesn't matter if she's guilty or not, the legal apparatus has utterly forfeited its right to hand out a ruling and everyone involved in keeping her detained for so long should be publicly flogged for the injustice of it all.