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From Associated Press via USVI News: Text messages between singer D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez shown in court indicate she had gotten pregnant and had an abortion more than a year before she was killed. The testimony came Friday during a hearing to determine if the singer, whose legal name is.
Texts reveal teen who singer D4vd is accused of killing was pregnant, had abortion year before death
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman speaks to reporters in Los Angeles Tuesday, July 21, 2026, regarding the case of David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, who was charged with killing a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in his car. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A makeshift Memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was killed and found inside a vehicle owned by singer D4vd, is placed outside her home in Lake Elsinore, Calif., on April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
In this courtroom sketch, David Anthony Burke, who is known as D4vd, is seen in court Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Bill Robles via AP)
A makeshift memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose body was found inside a vehicle owned by singer D4vd, is displayed outside her home in Lake Elsinore, Calif., on April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
D4vd appears at Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood in Los Angeles on Aug. 8, 2024. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Text messages between singer D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez shown in court Friday indicate she had gotten pregnant at age 13 and had an abortion more than a year before she was killed.
In one exchange in early January 2024, D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, apologizes for “putting her through this.”
“It’s okay,” she said in a text, “neither of us are capable of watching and taking care of the baby. it’s for the best no?”
He later apologizes again before asking if it’s his, and she replies, “of course it’s yours David.”
Chilling details emerge from a preliminary hearing in the case of a musician accused of killing and dismembering a 14-year-old girl. The AP’s Jennifer King reports.
The testimony came during a preliminary hearing where a judge will decide if Burke should go on trial in Rivas Hernandez’s killing. Prosecutors are seeking to prove Burke began sexually abusing Rivas Hernandez when she was 13 and he was 18, then stabbed her to death when she threatened to reveal their long sexual history and crater a career that had earned him millions.
They allege he dismembered the body in his garage, and a police analyst testified in the preliminary hearing that samples pulled from apparent blood stains there matched Rivas Hernandez’s DNA. Her body was discovered in the trunk of a Tesla that had been towed from the Hollywood Hills in September, nearly five months after authorities said she was killed. The Tesla was registered to Burke.
Burke has pleaded not guilty to murder, sexual abuse of a child and mutilation of a body, and his lawyers have said he is innocent.
Prosecution gives evidence of sexual abuse
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