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'll give you the short, short version from memory.
The Baby-Daddy of Mercedes' little girl had been having a bitter custody dispute with Mercedes. Things are ongoing ang acrimonious.
BD phones the cops and makes a bunch of reports about Mercedes and her partner using the little girl in porn or some such. Child abuse.
The cops bust in and search the place. They find enough meth for personal use and a legal hand gun.
At that point they use some bullshit interpretation of the law that because there is a gun AND drugs then it is a serious gun crime. This is exactly the play they used on Nick Rikieta; right down to the pissed off ex making reports.
The child (about age 4) was turned over to the father. Mercedes and her partner were thrown in jail on the gun charge while the police and prosecution thought up something to charge them with and to build a case.
It has been six years.
Most of the "evidence" is testimony of the daughter, who has been coached for six years now.
IMNHO, Mercedes probably deserves a drug possession charge and a good slap for being stupid enough to keep drugs in her home while she is fighting with her ex.
Feel free to correct me where I am wrong.
I can't thank you enough for taking the time to catch me up. Thank you big time.
It does sound sketchy AF for sure.
It is worth noting that Mercedes was very politically outspoken and took a pro GamerGate position (i.e. anti lying media) when that was very uncool. She was MAGA before that really became a thing.
Nick Rekieta was openly critical of the judges in his state and local, and had a huge audience. He was the most successful Youtuber (by Superchats) by quite a long way. His livestreams were consistently huge; like, bigger than CNN huge.
His channel was dedicated to educating normies and showing them the seamy side of lawfare cases. He reached his peak somewhere around the Depp vs Herd trial.
Rekieta inspired a hundred Lawtube pretenders, including Viva / Barnes, who took a bunch of inspiration from his success. I don't know if Barnes would have gotten into YouTube without seeing how successful Rackets channel became.
Both Mercedes and Nick Rekieta were involved in swinging sex stuff. Both were personally using drugs. Both were targets of the establishment.
I am not trying to justify anything that Nick has done wrong, but be aware that these are the tactics that the establishment uses to destroy people who call them out. They tried this exact shit on Trump; it is just that Trump is justifiably paranoid and has had a team of PAs keep his appointment diary hour by hour for literally years.
And remember, knowing is half the battle.