Man linked to Alicia Navarro, teen missing for 4 years, sentenced to 100 years for child sex abuse

A Montana man linked to the case of Alicia Navarro — the girl who walked into a police station four years after vanishing as a teenager — was sentenced to 100 years in prison in an unrelated child sex abuse case.

Edmund Davis pled guilty in September to one count of sexual abuse of children after authorities found explicit material on his electronic devices during a search of the Havre, Montana, apartment he shared with Navarro.

He was sentenced to 100 years at the Montana State Prison with 50 years suspended. He will not be eligible for parole for 25 years, the Montana Department of Justice said in a news release Tuesday.

Court documents had listed Davis as Navarro’s boyfriend. Prosecutors said Davis tried to discard his cellphone by throwing it in the trash and placing items on top of it.

“A review of the content determined the individuals depicted to be under the age of 13, with two images of children under the age of 5, including images of infants and toddlers and other computer-generated or animated content showing children being sexualized,” the Montana Department of Justice said.

Investigators previously said they found over 80 images on Davis’ phone.

Investigators went to the home in July 2023 looking for evidence connected to Navarro’s case after she walked into the Havre police station, identified herself as the missing girl and “basically asked for help to clear her off of a missing juvenile list,” authorities said the time. Navarro was 14 when she disappeared from her mother’s home in Glendale, Arizona, on Sept. 15, 2019.

Authorities have not said how Navarro ended up in Montana. Davis has not been charged in connection with the girl’s disappearance.

Her mother, Jessica Nuñez, told NBC News on Tuesday that Navarro is with her, but did not disclose further details. She also said she was pleased with Davis’ sentencing.

“I am very happy that he is behind bars and he won’t cause anymore harm,” she said in a statement. “I can’t recover the years that I was not with her and I cannot change the trauma but I can appreciate my daughter is alive and that we are healing together as a family.”

An attorney for Davis could not immediately be reached.