Detective Details D4vd's Sexual Relationship With 14-Year-Old in Murder Hearing
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 24
Detective Details D4vd's Sexual Relationship With 14-Year-Old in Murder Hearing
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 24
Summary
An LAPD detective told a Los Angeles court that investigators found photos they believe show D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez engaged in sex acts when she was 13 and 14 and he was 18 and 19.
Text messages described at the preliminary hearing discussed birth control, pregnancy and abortion, sharply expanding on prosecutors' earlier claim that the singer and the girl had a sexual relationship.
Prosecutors say David Burke, now 21, later fatally stabbed the 14-year-old, dismembered her body and left her remains in the trunk of his car; he has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
The testimony followed a medical examiner's account of the body's condition after the remains were discovered in Burke's car in September, underscoring the graphic evidence now shaping the hearing.