In Los Angeles, a judge has determined that enough evidence exists to bring singer David Burke — known professionally as D4vd — to trial for the murder and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose life ended in September 2025 after years of alleged sexual abuse at his hands. The case asks not only how one person could commit such violence against a child, but how an entire web of adults — parents, guardians, an industry — allowed the conditions for that violence to persist unchallenged. What stands before the court is not merely a criminal proceeding, but a reckoning with th
Judge Orders Trial for Singer D4vd in Death of 14-Year-Old Girl
A 14-year-old girl was murdered and dismembered by an adult with whom she had been sexually abused for approximately two years, beginning when she was 13 years old.