‘Significant amount’ of kid porn discovered on D4vd’s telephone as he’s charged with homicide in teen’s loss of life, prosecutors say | EUROtoday

Singer D4vd’s telephone was stuffed with a “significant amount” of kid pornography, prosecutors have claimed, as extra particulars come to gentle within the loss of life of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

D4vd, whose actual identify is David Anthony Burke, is accused of killing Rivas Hernandez, whose physique was discovered within the trunk of the musician’s apparently deserted Tesla in a Hollywood tow lot final September.

The 21-year-old singer was in a sexual relationship with Rivas Hernandez, and he turned to homicide when she threatened to “expose his criminal conduct and devastate his musical career,” the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office stated in a Monday press launch.

Prosecutors alleged throughout a courtroom listening to Thursday that D4vd had a “significant amount” of kid porn on his telephone, in line with a number of information retailers. That is a part of the 40 terabytes of proof prosecutors stated that they had.

D4vd was arrested final week and charged Monday with homicide, steady sexual abuse of a kid beneath the age of 14 and illegal mutilation of human stays. He has pleaded not responsible to all expenses, and his legal professionals have vowed to “vigorously defend David’s innocence.”

The singer is accused of partaking in three or extra acts of “substantial sexual conduct” with Rivas Hernandez between September 2023 and September 2024, a number of information retailers have reported, citing official paperwork.

Rivas Hernandez, of Lake Elsinore, California, was first reported lacking in February 2024. She was 13 years outdated on the time.

Her household reported her lacking a number of instances over the next months earlier than she vanished for good in April 2025. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman stated the teenager was final seen getting into D4vd’s Hollywood Hills dwelling.

”I’m a mum or dad of three kids, and a mum or dad’s nightmare is a scenario the place your daughter goes out one night time and by no means comes again,” Hochman informed reporters at a information convention Monday.

Rivas Hernandez’s dismembered and decomposed physique was discovered months later, on September 8, 2025 — the day after what would’ve been her fifteenth birthday — contained in the Tesla trunk.

Her post-mortem, which was made public Wednesday, revealed that she died from “multiple penetrating injuries.” D4vd used a “sharp instrument” to homicide Rivas Hernandez, prosecutors have claimed.

The teen’s post-mortem was restricted by “extensive postmortem changes,” in line with the Los Angeles County medical expert’s workplace, which famous in its report that her physique was so degraded her eye coloration couldn’t be decided.

D4vd went viral on TikTok in 2022 together with his hit track “Romantic Homicide,” which reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. His final two U.S. tour stops and his European leg have been canceled amid the investigation into Rivas Hernandez’s loss of life.

The musician is at the moment being held with out bail. A preliminary listening to to find out whether or not there’s sufficient proof to deliver the case to trial is ready for May 1. Prosecutors are but to determine whether or not they’ll search the loss of life penalty within the case.