An upstate New York district attorney’s office distributed child pornography of a
teenage social media star — and video of her being murdered — to the press in violation of federal law, an explosive lawsuit filed Thursday claims.
Bianca Devins was a 17-year-old
Utica resident on her way to college in July 2019 when she was
butchered by Brandon Clark, a friend she’d met online two months prior, in his SUV after a concert.
Clark set up a camera in his car so he could film the two having sex and, right after, the
moment he slit her throat as she pleaded for her life.
The Cicero man, 21 at the time, also snapped selfies beside Devin’s dead body,
shared the content online, and was later prosecuted by the Oneida District Attorney’s Office, which used the videos and images as their primary evidence to
secure a guilty murder plea from him last year.
Devins had a popular online following that
skyrocketed after her murder and her mother Kimberly Devins had long feared the gruesome video of her daughter’s final moments would be released and go viral online, the federal suit, filed in the Northern District of New York, states.
The mom was assured by two Oneida prosecutors the videos wouldn’t ever be released but to her “horror,” she later found out the office shared them with CBS 48 Hours, A&E, a confidante of Clark with a popular YouTube channel and possibly MTV and Peacock TV, the suit says.
The office also shared nude images of Bianca Devins that were taken from her phone after it was seized from the murder scene, the suit claims.
