The day that Chuck Berry went to jail for traveling with a Mexican prostitute

 Berry always liked to rip with savagery his guitar and to live life in a dangerous way. 

 While in some cases death only took 27 years to take young glories of rock (creating the famous Club of the 27), in the case of Chuck Berry was 90 long years to do it. It's not that Berry didn't lead a life of chaos, destruction and debauchery. Quite the opposite. The chronicler of the youth of the United States of the years 50 and 60, the same one who attended rock concerts, cafes, drank sodas, smoked cigarettes outside schools, combed with Vaseline and kissed in the darkness of the drive-in, found in the guitarist a Or his favorite heroes of all time. 

 Berry was a notable guitarist, a rebel and party by nature. Bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles Versionaron on several occasions, leaving in evidence that if Elvis was the king, Berry was the architect who laid the foundation for a music that would explode in the hearts of the eager youth of something savage. Berry always liked not only to rip his guitar with savagery but to live life also in a dangerous way. 

 Prior to his rise to fame, during a trip to Kansas City with a group of friends, in 1944, he participated in an armed robbery for which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Berry fulfilled three years of sentencing in the juvenile reformatory of Algoa, a place where he formed a singing group and dedicated himself to boxing. His was to challenge life to blows of danger and chaos. 

 Years after this fact and his debut as a professional musician, Berry would see them once again with justice. Ran 1959, the guitarist was at the top of his career and stopped along with his musicians in a bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (after completing a concert in El Paso, Texas) to drink a few beers while visiting the nightclubs of the city Ad of the striptease. 

 Berry liked guitars, rock, parties and, above all, exotic women. He was a big fan of inviting them to his dressing room, to his hotel rooms or to stroll in his car for a while. Beside his table he saw a slim-bodied girl, straight and black hair, generous hips and tan complexion that tended the place. The guitarist and she began to flirt in the distance, until they crossed words. They were close to an hour chatting, time in which the musician delighteded with the eyes of the girl, knew his name, Janice Norine Escalante, who was 21 years old and by his veins ran Apache blood. 

 Berry liked it so much and it was so nice that he offered to go with him to work at his bar Club Bandstand, in San Luis, Missouri. Taking advantage of his physical appearance, Berry dress from India Pocahontas to enliven the place. Janice accepted the offer of the musician and embarked on the rest of the tour with him. 

 Some sources claim that the girl became her lover, while the musician himself asserted in his autobiography that he had never touched it in the time that the tour lasted, leaving the possibility of having made it once they arrived in San Luis. Once the tour was completed and returned home, Berry installed his new employee in the club itself. The girl began to work under the orders of the guitarist who two weeks later had to be absent to go on tour again. 

 Despite his pleas to let her go with him, Berry left Janice in the place, for she had to work, depending on the treatment they both had. Janice felt a little disappointed but had no choice but to keep her word. At the time Berry was traveling, his employee stopped going to work at the Bandstand Club. None of the other employees knew where he was until one afternoon he went to the place a police car asking for Mr. Berry. By telling the uniformed people that the owner of the place was on the road, they explained what was taking them there: Janice Norine Escalante had been caught practicing prostitution on the streets of the city. The serious thing was that it was only 14 years old and not 21 as everyone thought. 

 Two weeks later, Berry returned to San Luis after the grueling tour. On arrival and not finding Janice her employees confessed what the police told them. Chuck felt hurt and dismayed. Two days later, the girl returned to work at Club Bandstand and Berry mounted in anger against her, recriminándoleing her attitude, lies and abuse of confidence. 

 His anger led him to dismiss her immediately. However, the worst was to come... 

 The uniformed men returned to the club two days later asking to speak to the owner. He was notified to the musician that his employee had confirmed to them the story they suspected: he had been taken by Berry to San Luis from Mexico and effectively practiced prostitution in a clandestine way even under age. The musician had violated a law for having crossed the border of the state with a minor on board for immoral purposes. Size offence had serious consequences for the artist: he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment and to pay a fine of two thousand dollars. 

 During the trial, Berry was found to have received racist slurs from Judge George H. Moore Jr., which served the defendant's attorneys to appeal the sentence and request a review of the case. Some sources argue that this was of no avail as the musician was found guilty of new account and sentenced to spend three years behind bars of which only one and a half met (from February 1962 to October 1963). On the other hand, the musician in his autobiography claims that he was never in prison: that is the mistaken idea that the people of Chuck Berry went to jail. They're completely wrong. But take a look at any of the local papers and you'll see I was acquitted. "I never went to jail." 

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