Singer D4vd Charged with Child Porn, Murder

0:00It's April 23, I'm Cory with the story, and this is California News today, your AI-powered local news. Prosecutors dropped a bombshell in court Thursday against singer David, real name David Anthony Burke, the 21-year-old charged with. First degree murder and the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. They revealed his iPhone held a significant amount of child pornography, as three grand juries reviewed evidence so far. His hearing marked exactly one year since Rivas Hernandez was believed killed back in April 2025. Her body turned up decomposed in a Tesla trunk at a Hollywood tow yard that September after she went missing from Lake Elsinore the year before. And was last seen at Birch's Hollywood Hills home on April 3. Birch lawyers pleaded not guilty on Monday and slammed the case, saying real evidence clears him of the murder and no indictment exists yet. After attorney Nathan Hawkman claims Burke killed her after she threatened to expose his repeated lude axe with her, a minor.

1:02Birch showed up shackled in an orange jumpsuit but stayed silent. The medical examiner's autopsy, sealed until last week, confirmed multiple stab wounds to her torso and dismemberment head and torso in one bag, other, parts in another. He spacing murder with special circumstances like lying in weight, plus lude axe on a child under 14 and mutilating a body. A preliminary hearing hits May 1st to decide if there's enough for trial, with a status update April 29. Conviction can mean life without parole or even death row, as Birch's world tour got scrapped right after her ID.