By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A convicted rapist was given a 10-year prison term this week for sexting a 14-year-old girl on Facebook Messenger and failing to register as a sex offender in Stillwater.
Courtland O’Neill Davis, 37, who pleaded guilty to both charges Monday, was ordered by District Judge Phillip Corley to participate in an inpatient treatment program in prison, court records show. Another count of lewd molestation of the girl was dropped last week.
According to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Detective Inspector Greg Miller, in March a woman found messages on a phone between Davis and a 14-year-old girl.
The woman showed screenshots of the sexually-oriented messages to another person, who contacted police, the affidavit said.
An examination of the girl’s phone showed that all but one message between Davis and the girl was deleted and unrecoverable, the affidavit said.
When the girl was interviewed at the Saville Center in Stillwater, she said that at the time she was living at a Stillwater residence where Davis was staying, the affidavit said.
The girl said that she was watching Netflix on her phone when Davis laid down on her bed and touched her, the affidavit alleged. She said she moved and tried to ignore Davis, who left the room, the affidavit alleged.
Davis was arrested on March 29 after the state Department of Human Services was advised that possibly a convicted sex offender was at the residence occupied by children, Stillwater Police Officer Kerry Bell wrote in an affidavit.
“I told Davis he was under arrest for failure to register as a sex offender,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
“I escorted Davis from the residence. He protested. He demanded that I give him a break several times. He claimed that we were friends and that I did not have to do this. He was transported by me to the city jail,” the officer wrote in his affidavit.
Davis had been convicted of rape by instrumentation in Payne County in 2013, for which he was originally given a one-year jail term followed by four years of probation that was revoked in 2015 to a four-year prison term of which he served about one and one-half years before he was released in February of 2017, according to court records and the state Department of Corrections.
Davis was subsequently convicted in Payne County of two separate charges of violating the Sex Offender Registration Act in 2017, for which he was given in 2018 two concurrent six-month jail terms followed by four and one-half years of probation.
In court this week, the judge ruled that he had violated the terms of probation in both cases and revoked the balance of his sentences to prison. All of his sentences were ordered to run concurrently.
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