The middle-aged “boyfriend” of missing former teen Alicia Navarro pleaded not guilty in a Montana court Monday to charges of storing sick sexual photographs of children, including some under the age of five, on his phone.
Edmund Davis, 36, pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of child sexual abuse before being returned to custody, where he is being held on $1 million bail.
Davis, bald and bearded, appeared in court wearing an orange prison jumpsuit with his hands cuffed in front of him.
His public defender told the court he would request a bail reduction for his client.
Davis was arrested in October after police searched his apartment following Navarro’s repaving. The girl, now 18, had disappeared from her home in Arizona four years ago, but she showed up at a police station in Havre, Montana, last July and asked to be taken off the missing persons lists.
Shortly after it became clear that she had been living with Davis, allegedly as his girlfriend, police searched her apartment and seized her cellphones, where prosecutors with the Montana Attorney General’s Office said they discovered evidence of child sexual abuse.
Edmund Davis, 36, pleaded not guilty to child sexual abuse charges on Monday.
When police initially arrived at the home to execute their search warrant, it was Navarro who answered the door and was allegedly observed trying to hide a cell phone in a trash can.
“Dozens of images of suspected child sexual abuse material were located on the device and were confirmed to belong to Davis,” the attorney general’s office later said in a statement.
“Following their protocols, Glendale police selected ten images from those found and took them to medical experts. …The review determined that the individuals depicted were under the age of 13, with two images of children under the age of 5,” the release and charging documents allege.
Searches on Davis’ other devices found that they “contained images of babies and young children and other animated or computer-generated content depicting children being sexualized,” authorities said.
Navarro, now 18, disappeared from her parents’ home in Arizona shortly before her 15th birthday. Davis and Navarro had been living together for at least a year, locals said, while he told people she was her niece. Brigitte Stelzer for NY Post
Navarro had been living with Davis for at least a year, locals told The Post before her arrest for child sexual abuse, and a former colleague from her work at Walmart explained that he told people she was his niece.
“They were using the cover… that she was their niece,” the colleague said.
Navarro has since been reunited with his mother, Jessica Núñez, who posted a video telling parents of other missing children that “miracles happen.”
Navarro had left a note for her mother when she disappeared shortly before her 15th birthday in 2019, leading police to believe she “voluntarily left her home.” Davis has not been charged in her disappearance.
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