Justin Berry, the porn star, the new young Lord of Bakersfield - By N.L. Belardes

Here's my comment on Oprah.com where there were more than 1000 comments on the Justin Berry story of he being a child Internet porn star. Oh yes, this has been the talk in Bakersfield, the land where the Lords dwell: Berry was a kid who kept photos of himself on his work desk (strange), who simply disappeared supposedly because he was sick. Make the connection to the story I released about a 13 year old. Prominent people do reel in kids.

And even more important, what are your kids doing?

I ran into kids recently who said they had global Internet businesses.

Do you parents really let your 13, 14, 15-year-old kids have Internet businesses?

What are these businesses? If you care, then you will dig deeply and discover whether your own kids are into such rings of deceit. Why? Because Justin Berry can't possibly be alone.

Here's my comment on Oprah.com:

Another young Lord of Bakersfield?
Posted by: nlbelardes
Posted on: 02/18/2006 at 10:57am (1047 of 1047)

The scary parallel:
I just released a controversial novel about the Lords of Bakersfield titled Lords: Part One, a story about a 13-year-old boy getting caught up in a web of frightening adults who are known in Bakersfield, California as the Lords of Bakersfield.

Book setting: 1977. No Internet, but same results.

Those stories made national headlines in 2003. I fictionalized the account of a kid getting caught up way over his head through his own greed and the sexual deviancy of prominent city folks, including the local newspaper publisher, lawmakers, etc.

I take a lot of heat for releasing a book that graphically depicts, as the Oprah show did with Justin's accounts, the exploits of this kid. Why? Social consciousness awareness. I throw the message right into the face of the very city that created what some believe is an urban myth and many believe to be true.

Justin Berry's story helps validate my own revealing novel that prominent, trusted people commit illegal activities and take advantage of kids.

People in Bakersfield who are so afraid of the Lords of Bakersfield and a possibly crooked DA (as revealed in Ed Humes book Mean Justice) have at least one novelist willing to stand up against the whispers of "How can he write that and not get killed?"

And the local newspaper, why won't they talk about my book? They will tell you they just aren't interested.

But the truth is, the newspaper can't control the content of my novel. It's too frightening for them to dig too deeply in their own past that inplicates the current publisher's own brother in evil doings against children...

Thanks for your story. Follow up on it. Help get the message out, especially in Bakersfield where there are many tales of Lords of Bakersfield, both young and old.

By the way, I work for a company where Berry worked when he was around 16 as a webmaster. He disappeared under strange circumstances. And now I know why.

www.nlbelardes.com www.noveltown.net

This entry was posted by N.L. Belardes, on Saturday, February 18, 2006. You can leave your response.