D4VD Was Told She Was Thirteen — Prosecutors Say He Continued

Riverside County deputies called David Anthony Burke. They conducted a welfare check. They told him Celeste Rivas Hernandez was a thirteen-year-old runaway. And according to the People's Brief filed this week, Burke allegedly responded by driving to Lake Elsinore and paying one of Celeste's classmates a thousand dollars to deliver a phone he'd bought — so he could stay in contact after her parents took hers away.

The filing describes a pattern that prosecutors say started when Celeste was eleven years old and escalated through international travel, weekends at Burke's Hollywood Hills home, and a sexual relationship that allegedly produced text messages about pregnancy, abortion, and Plan B — all pulled from Burke's own iCloud.

Celeste's family reported her missing to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department twice. Deputies contacted Burke both times. And prosecutors allege every system that should have caught what was happening failed to stop it.

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down the exploitation pattern prosecutors laid out, how a child was allegedly kept hidden in a celebrity's world, and why the abuse timeline is the foundation for the murder motive.

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