D4vd murder case investigators testify that 13-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was pregnant before her death

Warning: this article contains distressing details Text messages between D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez – the 14-year-old he is accused of murdering – indicate she was pregnant and had an abortion more than a year before she was killed. Earlier this year, the singer (real name David Anthony Burke) was accused by prosecutors of dismembering Hernandez’s body with a chainsaw in his garage after buying tools online, and on April 20, he was charged with her murder. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering and sexually abusing the teen, whose remains had been found severely decomposed in the front boot of a Tesla registered to Burke last September. Text messages between D4vd and Hernandez shown in court on Friday (July 24), indicate she had become pregnant at age 13, and had an abortion more than a year before she was killed. Prosecutors presented iCloud data recovered from the defendant’s iPhone, showing texts between him and Hernandez dating back to August 8, 2022, when she was 11 years old and he was 17. The device belonging to Burke also had photos of the teenager during the alleged sexual abuse, prosecutors and Los Angeles Police Detective Corey Farell said on Friday, per BBC News. ...