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\n A makeshift memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez outside her home in Lake Elsinore, California. AP Photo \/ Damian Dovarganes, File<\/p>\n
THE TEENAGE GIRL allegedly killed and dismembered by American singer D4vd had an abortion after their sexual encounter, according to text messages revealed Friday in a Los Angeles court.<\/p>\n
On the fourth day of a hearing to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute the singer, the prosecution reviewed dozens of messages between him and Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a year before her death.<\/p>\n
D4vd (21), whose real name is David Anthony Burke, asks her, among other things, when she is going to have an abortion, before asking, \u201cit is mine right?\u201d according to the texts.<\/p>\n
Ms Hernandez replies, \u201cof course its yours David.\u201d<\/p>\n
The teenager was 13 at the time.<\/p>\n
D4vd is accused of stabbing her to death a little over a year later in April 2025, before dismembering her body with a chainsaw.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors alleged in charging papers that Burke killed her after she threatened to make their long-standing and illegal sexual relationship public, jeopardising his singing career.<\/p>\n
The singer rose to fame in 2022 when his song \u201cRomantic Homicide\u201d became a viral sensation on TikTok.<\/p>\n
Ms Hernandez\u2019s decomposing body was found last September in the boot of a Tesla registered in the singer\u2019s name, which had been towed to a Hollywood impound lot.<\/p>\n
\n A makeshift memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez outside her home in Lake Elsinore, California. AP Photo \/ Damian Dovarganes, File<\/p>\n
AP Photo \/ Damian Dovarganes, File \/ Damian Dovarganes, File\n<\/p>\n
Burke has denied one count each of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. He could face life imprisonment or the death penalty if convicted.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Los Angeles Police Department detective Corey Farrell testified that Burke\u2019s iPhone contained numerous photos showing him having sex with Celeste.<\/p>\n
Also testifying Friday was Dr Grant Ho, who performed the autopsy on Ms Hernandez. He said it was \u201cextremely difficult\u201d to determine exactly how long the teenager had been dead when her body was found because her remains were \u201cseverely decomposed.\u201d<\/p>\n
D4vd\u2019s defence questioned the doctor in a way that suggested Hernandez might have injured herself or been killed during a struggle.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t rule out that she would have been holding the instrument that caused either of those wounds?\u201d lawyer Marilyn Bednarski said.<\/p>\n
The doctor agreed but specified that he had not found \u201chesitation marks\u201d usually found in suicide and self-harm cases.<\/p>\n
The preliminary hearing is expected to conclude on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE TEENAGE GIRL allegedly killed and dismembered by American singer D4vd had an abortion after their sexual encounter,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[196732,715,39416,254957,18,117,19,17,1370,76805],"class_list":["post-603355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celeste-rivas-hernandez","tag-crime","tag-d4vd","tag-david-anthony-burke","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-los-angeles","tag-murder-trial"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116979802261187629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}