December 18, 2020 5:35 PMLegal
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LOS ANGELES Mercedes Carrera and Daemon Cins were set to face a pre-trial hearing in child sex abuse charges Thursday, after remaining in jail for almost 23 months since their arrest. But for the ninth consecutive time, a judge granted a continuance in the case. The hearing is now scheduled for January 7, according to information from the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office.
The pre-trial hearing had already been postponed repeatedly since August 8 of 2019, when Carrera, a longtime performer in the adult industry, and Cins sat in a courtroom as prosecutors played a 75-minute audio recording of the alleged, nine-year-old victim in the case. Carrera, who denies the charges against her and along with Cins has entered pleas of not guilty, has publicly acknowledged that the girl making the accusations is her daughter.
A one-year-old boy was allegedly abused by a teenage girl in Fontana, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff s Department.
On Dec. 6 at about 1 p.m., deputies from the Fontana Sheriff s Station received a call for service regarding several videos of a child being abused that were posted on a personal social media page. The videos revealed someone slapping a small child across the face and the child s head being bounced against a mattress several times.
The investigation revealed that the suspect was identified as the victim s 14-year-old sibling and the incident took place in the 18000 block of Athol Avenue.