Aleisha Brown was just 15 years old when she witnessed her father beat her mother to death, and five years later she said she is finally finding peace
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- Joshua Brown will serve four life sentences without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to first-degree murder and three counts of child abuse in an Oklahoma City courtroom
- He killed his wife Shawntae Brown, 34, in September 2020 by beating her to death in front of their three children, who he then ordered to clean up their mother’s blood
- Their oldest daughter Aleisha was just 15 at the time, and now five years later she gave her approval to the plea deal which spared her father from having to face the death penalty
It was just before 2 a.m. on Sept. 30, 2020 when Aleisha Brown and her two younger siblings made the decision to call 911.
A few minutes after the call came in from the three children — aged 15, 14 and 9 at the time — deputies with the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) arrived at the home, which they quickly declared a crime scene.
When investigators started to inspect the scene, they discovered blood on the floors and rugs, holes in the walls and the body of a woman who had been dead for at least a few hours, according to the probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE…