A man created a Facebook page in the name of an ex-girlfriend he raped, then used it to stalk a more recent ex and threatened to distribute a secretly filmed video of them having sex if she didn’t return to him, police said.
Travis Allen Davis, 23, has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer has said he intends to prove his innocence.
Davis was arrested last week outside the second ex-girlfriend’s home in Delmont, about 40km east of Pittsburgh, after someone called police to report a man sleeping in a suspicious vehicle outside, police said.
He had a .45-calibre pistol, three magazines of bullets and a box cutter, and the car had a stolen Pennsylvania license plate taped over the Indiana plate on his car, police said.
Davis had created a Facebook profile in the name of another ex-girlfriend, a woman he had raped in Ohio, and used it to contact the Pennsylvania woman and her current boyfriend’s family, police said.
A week before his arrest, police contend Davis sent the Pennsylvania woman a video of him having sex with her when both still lived in Indiana. The woman “never knew that this video was filmed in the first place and obviously never gave consent to send the video to anyone,” a criminal complaint said.
Davis threatened in an email to “send the video to everyone if she did not return to Indiana for him,” a criminal complaint said.
A few days later, the Pennsylvania woman received a friend request from a Facebook page Davis created using the identity of his Ohio rape victim, also an ex-girlfriend, police said. Davis – pretending to be the Ohio woman – threatened to send the video to the Pennsylvania woman’s current boyfriend if she did not move to Indiana, the complaint said.
Davis, still posing as the woman he raped, then messaged the Pennsylvania woman and told her he would keep the video a secret if she agreed to a “sexy video chat” with her ex-boyfriend over the internet. Police say the Pennsylvania woman consented to the chat Aug. 12.
The next day, Davis called the woman claiming that his Facebook alter ego had sent him the video and “advised her, in sum and substance, that it may be in her best interest to return to Indiana,” the complaint said.
On Aug. 14, nude images of the Pennsylvania woman were sent from the Facebook page to the woman and her boyfriend’s mother, police said. Authorities said they have contacted Davis’ accuser in Ohio, who confirmed the Facebook page wasn’t hers.
The Associated Press generally does not identify people alleging sexual assault.
Davis remained jailed Wednesday, a day after his preliminary hearing on the Pennsylvania charges was postponed until Sept. 7.
Davis pleaded guilty to rape in Ohio this month and is scheduled to be sentenced for that on Oct. 5, according to online court records. He was armed when he broke into the Ohio woman’s home last year, handcuffing and then raping her.
District Judge Charles Conway on Tuesday in Pennsylvania ordered Davis to undergo a mental health evaluation and raised his bail from $10,000 to $75,000. Davis is charged with stalking, transmitting obscene images, loitering, criminal coercion, carrying an unlicensed firearm and other crime
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