Man linked to teen Alicia Navarro is charged with child sexual abuse
The man linked with the disappearance of Alicia Navarro, a teen who had previously been missing, has been charged with child sexual abuse.
Edmund Davis, the 36-year-old man from Montana who reportedly had been in a sexual relationship with the now-19-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with two felony counts of abuse of children over material found on his cellphone.
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Alicia Navarro had disappeared on September 15, 2019, days before her 15th birthday from Arizona. In late July this year, she showed up alone at a small-town police station in Montana and asked to be removed from the missing persons' list.
A Facebook photo of Eddy Davis, 36, who lives in Havre (Facebook)Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced charges of two felony counts of sexual abuse of children resulting from child sexual abuse material found on the suspect's cell phone.
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Agents from the Montana Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Blaine County Sheriff's Department arrested Edmund Davis, 36, on Monday afternoon in Chinook, Montana.
Alicia Navarro disappeared in 2019 at the age of 15
She walked in alone at a police station in July this year (Missing Children)The attorney general said that the child sex abuse material was found on his cellphone, which was seized when a search warrant was executed in Havre, Montana earlier this year. Davis is being held in the Hill County Detention Center on a $1 million bond as ordered by state District Court Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz. After Navarro turned up to the police in July, the Havre Police Department served a search warrant on Davis's apartment, as they learned that the teenage girl was living there.
Alicia vanished in 2019When Alicia answered the door, officers saw Davis in the kitchen behind her throwing a cell phone into a trash can and placing items on top of the phone as if to hide it.
Dozens of images of suspected child sex abuse material were located on the device, confirmed to belong to Davis. Following their protocols, Glendale Police selected ten images from those found and brought them to medical experts.
The review determined the individuals depicted to be under the age of 13, with two images of children under the age of 5, the attorney general said.
Alicia Navarro was living with the man now charged with child sexual abuse (Facebook)The phone and other electronic devices found during the search were transferred into the custody of the DCI Computer Forensics Unit in Helena. DCI agents then obtained a separate search warrant for the electronics and identified a known child sexual abuse material photo series and other evidentiary images.
According to the attorney general's release, the phone contained images of infants and toddlers and other computer-generated or animated content showing children being sexualized.
If you are a survivor of sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673) or visit its website to receive confidential support.
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