Mercedes Carrera Faces a Sex Worker's Worst Nightmare (XBIZ)

Read the full article by Gustavo Turner at XBIZ.com

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Cal. — Adult performer Mercedes Carrera alleges she has been “left alone with no bail, unable to defend myself” in San Bernardino County’s West Valley Detention Center “without proper legal counsel and without being able to contact my daughter.”

Almost two months ago, Carrera’s home was raided by Rancho Cucamonga police and she and her current husband, video engineer Jason Whitney, were charged with sexual abuse of a “child 10 years old or younger,” and possession of drugs and weapons.

XBIZ spoke exclusively with Carrera at the West Valley Detention Center. The interview was conducted without privacy in a public room at the county facility, where Carrera could be seen behind a bulletproof glass speaking to us via a phone device that shuts off automatically without warning.

Carrera appeared strong at first, but broke down repeatedly during the interview whenever the subject of the custody battle with her former partner, her daughter’s father, would come up. Carrera insists, as she communicated to XBIZ the week after her arrest (the last time she was allowed to make a statement about her innocence), that her estranged former partner fabricated the claims that resulted in her arrest.

 XBIZ confirms how difficult it is for Carrera to get her story out. This conversation was reconstructed from notes taken immediately after the interview, in the West Valley Detention Center parking lot. Visitors are only allowed to carry one car key and a driver’s license into the visiting room. Writing implements are forbidden in all of the facility’s grounds, though the rule is arbitrarily enforced in the lobby.