Boyfriend of Alicia Navarro, teen discovered 4 years after vanishing, charged with baby sexual abuse
The person who authorities describe because the boyfriend of Alicia Navarro — the teenage girl who walked into a Montana police station four years after she vanished in Arizona — was arrested on prices of kid sexual abuse after express photographs have been discovered on his cellphone, officers mentioned Tuesday.
The photographs have been discovered on a telephone allegedly belonging to Edmund Davis, 36, whereas investigators searched his Havre, Montana, residence in July for proof within the Alicia Navarro case, based on the Montana Legal professional Normal’s Workplace. Navarro was 14 when she disappeared from her mother’s home on Sept. 15, 2019.
In July, an 18-year-old Navarro went to a police station within the small Montana city of Havre and recognized herself because the lacking woman. The fees in opposition to Davis are usually not associated to Navarro, a spokesperson for the legal professional normal’s workplace mentioned.
The telephone contained photographs of a “baby or kids 12 years of age or youthful engaged in sexual conduct precise or simulated,” based on charging paperwork within the case. The paperwork listing one other sufferer who was beneath the age of 16.
He was charged with two felony counts of sexual abuse of youngsters.
Investigators mentioned they discovered over 80 photographs on Davis’ telephone, based on court docket paperwork filed Oct. 16 in search of Davis’ arrest.
He was taken into custody Monday in Chinook, Montana, by the Montana Division of Justice’s Division of Prison Investigation and the Blaine County Sheriff’s Division. He stays jailed on the Hill County Detention Middle on a $1 million bond.
Legal professional data was not obtainable for Davis.
Authorities mentioned 9 of the photographs obtained a “maturity score” from Phoenix Youngsters’s Hospital and it was decided that seven of the images have been rated as kids beneath the age of 13 and two contained kids beneath the age of 5, the paperwork state.
The paperwork describe graphic photographs investigators mentioned they discovered on Davis’ cellphone in addition to a laptop computer. The victims are described as being “prepubescent” females and “an obvious younger boy,” based on the paperwork.
An agent additionally famous “the presence of different photographs of infants and toddlers,” the paperwork state.
The legal professional normal’s workplace mentioned Davis, who’s described within the court docket paperwork as being Navarro’s boyfriend, tried to discard his cellphone throughout the search at his house.
Authorities mentioned when officers arrived on the residence Navarro and Davis shared collectively on July 26, Navarro initially mentioned nobody was house however police noticed Davis within the kitchen “throwing a cellphone into the trash and inserting gadgets on high of mentioned telephone.”
Authorities haven’t mentioned how Navarro ended up in Montana or how lengthy she had been there. Jose Santiago, a spokesman for Glendale police, beforehand mentioned that when Navarro went to the Montana police station she “principally requested for assist to clear her off of a lacking juvenile listing.” In video launched by authorities, she was heard telling detectives that no one had hurt her.
After Navarro was positioned, her mom, Jessica Nuñez, launched a video calling it a “miracle” that her daughter had been found safe.
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