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Men admitting guilt in multiple instances of child sex assault were each handed down decades-long prison sentences for their crimes on Jan. 4.
Ondray Brandon Ladia’s 30-year prison sentence handed down by Jeffferson County 253nd District Court Judge Raquel West, were based on claims indicted by a grand jury in 2021.
According to the probable cause affidavit describing Ladia’s perpetrated sexual abuse, a Mequite police officer called his Groves Police Department counterparts to alert them of the crimes that took place in their jurisdiction.
“Officers met with a 15-year-old victim, who indicated that her father – Ladia – had been sexually assaulting her for several years,” the affidavit reads. “(She) provided officers with writings allegedly from (Ladia), detailing him sexually abusing (her) and fantasizing sexually about her. (She) was interviewed at a child advocacy center, where she detailed that she previously lived at Beverly Place Apartments. While living there, (Ladia) made her perform oral sex on him several times over the course of several years, along with other sexual abuses.
“At the time of these offenses, (she) was approximately 7-8 years of age. These allegations would have occurred on or about the years 2012-2013. (Ladia) was interviewed by a detective with the Mesquite Police Department, where he admitted to at least two different times he had (his daughter) perform oral sex on him.”
While in custody in Jefferson County, Ladia racked up more criminal charges. After a jailer found a bevy of narcotics concealed inside a deodorant stick belonging to Ladia, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted him on Sept. 28, 2022, for possessing prohibited substances in a correctional facility.
According to a probable cause affidavit detailing the encounter, a jailer was searching Ladia’s bunk when they found quetiapine (antipsychotic medication), trazodone (antidepressant), loratadine (antihistamine) and diphenhydramine (antihistamine).
The investigating officer wrote that multiple pills were found inside a silver deodorant stick and photographed as evidence. A nurse at the jail told investigators the diphenhydramine (Benadryl) was the same as they administered at the correctional facility. The nurse further stated that none of the aforementioned pills appear on Ladia’s medical record as those he has been – or should be – taking.
As part of Ladia’s sentencing on Jan. 4, the possession charge was dismissed.
Jeffrey Kevin Davis, of Port Neches, accused of multiple child sex abuse crimes, simply answered “Yes, ma’am” when asked if the 2013, 2006, and 2014 child sex assault charges were indeed true.
“Yes, ma’am,” was also the response Davis gave Just West when answering allegations of 2021 tampering with a witness, a first degree due to the level of the underlying offense.
Davis was handed down concurrent 20-year prison sentences for each of the offenses, with credit granted for time he’s already been in custody.
In 2021, Judge West revoked Davis’ prior parole for an injuring a disabled individual conviction, sentencing him to 10 years in prison for violating multiple conditions, including failing to report to his parole officer and receiving additional charges.
According to a probable cause indictment penned by Beaumont Police Department (BPD) Detective Matt Gardner, officers learned that Davis allegedly used a middle-man, Jayden Michael Camp, to offer the complainant in his child sex assault case $1,000 to drop all charges against him.
When the complainant refused, a probable cause affidavit reads, Camp advised that Davis had deep ties to the Aryan Nation and to name his price. Additionally, Camp told the complainant that, “something would happen regardless, and they knew where he lived and that he had a family.”
The complainant, fearing for his life, told officers that the younger Camp called him to offer the money before attempting to reach out via Facebook with a new offer of $5,000, all allegedly directed by Davis.
“As far as I know there’s nothing wrong with offering somebody a settlement to, you know, not press charges,” Davis said while speaking on a Jefferson County Jail phone to his sister, to which she replied, “It is.”
“Well, how did Michael Jackson make a deal civilly and stay out of court then?” he asked before his sister advised that such settlements are made via attorneys and not hushed, coded phone calls through sons of fellow inmates.