Daughter says father deserves death penalty under new law in child sex abuse case

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – When Ana Albarran of Kissimmee found out her own father, Davie Albarran, had been arrested by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office for alleged sexual assault on children, she celebrated the news and said she is “hoping” he receives the death penalty.

“I’m hoping he gets like 20 years and the death penalty just because he deserves it,” she told Florida’s Voice. “He hurt so many people.”

Davie Albarran was featured on the crime television show “America’s Most Wanted” for the alleged sexual assault of 24 victims, according to Ana, including her own niece.

She and her sister became viral on TikTok after discovering their father was an alleged child predator and asked the public for help with trying to find him, even enlisting the public’s help to put up a billboard through a fundraising page.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested Davie Albarran Feb. 18 after he was allegedly on the run for over a year.

Ana said she received multiple tips from the public about her father’s whereabouts the night of his arrest and said she called the police four times to tell them where he was hiding.

She tells Florida’s Voice she “snapped” when she saw her then nine-year-old niece’s face when detailing what she said the suspect had done to her “for months.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new Florida law, which took effect in October 2023, making it possible for child rapists to receive the death penalty.

Ana said she will “feel relieved” if her father receives the capital punishment.

“What he did to my niece was bad, and for months he did it to her, and just like how hopeless she felt, having to deal with her own grandfather doing these acts to her, hiding her phone so she can’t call anyone, like making her turn off the cameras in the house,” Ana said. “He’s a monster and he deserves that times 1,000. Like, he’s just a really bad person and I don’t feel bad about it.”

“I think that’s a great law to have, especially when it comes to little kids,” she continued.

According to Albarran’s arrest affidavit from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the arresting officer responded to a call in Lakeland, “in reference to locating a subject with 2 active warrants.”

Albarran allegedly had an active warrant from Osceola County for the charges of sex battery on a 12 year-old victim.

The second active warrant on Albarran was from Orange County was a “civil pick-up order for the charges of failure to pay child support.”

Albarran allegedly falsely identified himself as “Jose Rodriguez” to the officer on the scene of the arrest, according to the sheriff’s office.

Ana said there are 24 victims who came forward about her father and said she believes there have been two children and four adults so far, who have spoken out or made a statement about being sexually abused by him. She said he has “been doing this his whole life.”

“They’re kind of like building up the courage to go, a lot of women don’t want to do it because one, they already know he’s in jail, and two, they don’t want to go through like a long court process,” she said. “But like, I could just imagine that it’s probably more because if he was left alone with your child, he would do something to them. It doesn’t matter if you’re related or not related at all.”

Although she celebrated her father’s arrest, Ana said her father’s side of the family “sided with him” and she “lost the relationship” with them. She also said her mental health “is garbage.”

“Finding out that your father hurt people is horrible, but having to read over like 10, 20 people tell you exactly what your father has done to them is so sick,” she said. “And I had a mental breakdown finding out my father was like this.”