Alicia Navarro's Boyfriend Arrested on Child Porn Charges

This is a bittersweet ending, if not a happy one.  Recall that Alicia Navarro is the young woman who came forward during the media circus around Rudy Farias' re-emergence from not being kidnapped, to say that she was also fine and not kidnapped.

The way Navarro's story was reported led me to believe that she had left voluntarily and been self-sufficient the whole time, perhaps working and staying with other peers not much older than herself.  I would have been capable of something along those lines at her age.  That sounded plausible to me.  I accepted, or perhaps assumed, that an investigation had been done.

I subsequently learned that Alicia was very much not capable of anything like that at 14.  A special-needs girl, Alicia could not manage her own life, while I was basically fending for myself.

What didn't come out until much later was that Alicia had been staying with an adult man for four years, Edmund Davis.  Fortunately the police did follow up on this.

KRTV:

"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."

As a survivor it's very obvious to me that Alicia was groomed and lured away from her home.  She's too young and inexperienced to understand that he doesn't like her for herself.  He likes her because she looks so very young and small, and she's so easily manipulated.  He has nothing to offer her but some craphole apartment in Montana.  He can't get a woman his own age, is why he's allegedly fixated on children.

So I'm glad that she's been returned to her own life without this guy.  Glad that he's been discovered, one more alleged pedo off the internet.  It saddens me that she doesn't see, and may never see, what happened to her there, how badly she undersold herself with this scumbag.