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Father of The 5 Browns pleads guilty to sexually abusing his daughters
Deseret News ^ | Feb. 18, 2011 | Sara Lenz

Posted on 02/18/2011 1:18:18 PM PST by Colofornian

PROVO — The father of The 5 Browns — his face scratched with injuries from a spectacular Monday auto accident — pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing his daughters when they were children.

Keith Brown, 55, appeared very solemn and serious during his appearance. He was just recently released from the hospital where he was treated for injuries from a Monday night accident in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

In a voice barely audible, Brown pleaded guilty to sodomy on a child, a first-degree felony, and two counts of sex abuse of a child, a second-degree felony.

Brown will be sentenced March 31 at 10 a.m. Prosecutors will recommend that he spend 10 years to life in prison.

The charges against him were only filed last week. But police have been working on the case for months, and the resulting charges and Thursday's plea were part of an agreement reached between prosecutors, Brown's attorney and his daughters — Desirae, 32; Deondra, 30; and Melody, 26.

Brown's attorney, Steve Shapiro, said he has been having discussions with prosecutors about the case for past six months.

"Today was the next step in a very long process that Keith has been going through to accept responsibility," Shapiro said. "He's terribly remorseful for what has happened and what he's put his family through."

Shapiro said his client first went to his LDS bishop to confess the abuse. But prosecutor David Sturgill said it was the daughters who first reported the abuse to police.

(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...


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Pray for the Mormon victims involved.

Also, the breaking development that's part of this story is this part revealed:

From the article: Shapiro said his client first went to his LDS bishop to confess the abuse. But prosecutor David Sturgill said it was the daughters who first reported the abuse to police.

So...the Mormon bishop had the information...didn't provide it to police.

Let's see...where did we recently hear of something similar? Oh, yeah: Did fellow Mormons cover up officer's baby molestations?

Same thing in that case -- where the wife of the perp told the bishop, who hung onto the info for a while.

1 posted on 02/18/2011 1:18:24 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Does he get a lighter prison time since he pleaded guilty? I hope he is beaten to a pulp in prison, and he finds out what it is to be used as a sex toy. Creep.


2 posted on 02/18/2011 1:21:35 PM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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To: Colofornian

How did this come out? He had an accident and then this all came out? Men who do this are so evil.


3 posted on 02/18/2011 1:25:15 PM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: svcw
I hope he is beaten to a pulp in prison, and he finds out what it is to be used as a sex toy.

He likely will be if they put him in the general prison population. And I'm all for that.

4 posted on 02/18/2011 1:33:08 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Colofornian

Accident?

More like suicide attempt, IMHO.


5 posted on 02/18/2011 1:35:09 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 759 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
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So...the Mormon bishop had the information...didn't provide it to police.

Would a priest reveal a confession?

6 posted on 02/18/2011 1:36:18 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 759 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
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To: null and void

Somewhere I saw a picture of the car, it is amazing that he and his wife survived the crash. It looked totaled. Prayers for the children of this pervert, it wouldn’t surprise me if it comes out that he also abused the boys. These acts are never about sex they are about control.


7 posted on 02/18/2011 1:40:26 PM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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To: Colofornian

He needs more hanging.

Likely his daughters were subjected to this all their lives.


8 posted on 02/18/2011 1:41:14 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: svcw

When it's not your time, it's not your time...

9 posted on 02/18/2011 1:51:04 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 759 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
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That car was totaled and no one should have survived. It seems unlikely that it was anything other than a suicide attempt.

I do not know why God spared him, but were I him, I would prefer death.

10 posted on 02/18/2011 1:53:30 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: null and void

Look slike the roof was cutoff during the rescue.


11 posted on 02/18/2011 1:53:30 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: null and void

A little Bondo and some paint and she’ll be back on the road.


12 posted on 02/18/2011 1:55:54 PM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: Frantzie

As well as the women who turn away while it happens. Someone please convince me their mother did not know.


13 posted on 02/18/2011 2:01:44 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: null and void
"Would a priest reveal a confession? "

If not, he too should be imprisoned as an accessory after the fact.

14 posted on 02/18/2011 3:18:42 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: All

Let’s think a moment. A well known anti-Mormon activist/propagandist posts threads/links/articles constantly that are in some way linked to Mormons. Like this one for example.

Hmmm..... if he were only concerned with the victims and justice just as myself and everyone else I personally know is, and that is his only concern, then why no threads about crimes committed by persons of other faiths and of course pointing out clearly what faith they are?

Could it be that concern for the victims and justice for the perpetrators is NOT his main focus? Hmmmmm..... Just a question to ponder.


15 posted on 02/18/2011 3:33:26 PM PST by Paragon Defender
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And where is your concern for the victims instead of your obsession with the poster.
16 posted on 02/18/2011 3:39:57 PM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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To: Paragon Defender

Just incase you where not aware the “Dessert News” is lds owned, are they also anti-mormon as it was they who wrote the article?


17 posted on 02/18/2011 3:41:44 PM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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To: Paragon Defender
Yes I know its Deseret News.
18 posted on 02/18/2011 3:42:53 PM PST by svcw (God in His own time not ours)
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To: svcw

Really. You should pay attention to what is being said before you respond. Try reading what I said again. More slowly perhaps.

Full words and sentences. Context. I bet you can do it. Do you want to do it?


19 posted on 02/18/2011 3:45:52 PM PST by Paragon Defender
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"He's terribly remorseful for what has happened

i hate when people use this kind of wording... as if it just happened... makes it seem like he is not responsible for his actions...

20 posted on 02/18/2011 3:46:14 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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