Rapper D4vd's seized phone contained a 'significant' amount of child pornography, prosecutors alleged at a hearing on Thursday after he was charged with murder. D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, was charged with first-degree murder on April 20 for the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 14.
The singer, 21, looked somber as he was shackled to his chair for the hearing. He wore an orange prison jumpsuit with a tan t-shirt underneath. His defense attorney, Blair Berk, asked for the preliminary hearings to begin today - where the performer said his first words since being accused of the horrific crime.
'Yes ma'am,' D4vd said after the Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo asked his lawyer if she could handle other cases at the same time as his, and if he was okay with that.
Speaking about the volume of digital evidence which will need to be looked through for the case, Prosecutor Beth Silverman revealed to the room that D4vd allegedly had child porn on his iPhone. It is unclear if the explicit child images are of the victim, Rivas Hernandez.
Prosecutor Silverman said: 'He had an iPhone and it contained a significant amount of child pornography and under the law child porn cannot be obtained without certain precautions in place.' Silverman explained that they can have a specific computer in the DA's office that will handle the child porn evidence. She said: 'I cannot turn that type of materials over.'
Singer D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, has been charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body. This is a breaking news story.
