Overview
- Joshua Brown was sentenced last week to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his wife, Shawntae, in 2020.
- Aleisha, then 15, says the violence in the family’s Spencer, Okla., home escalated over 24 hours as she tried to shield her younger siblings.
- She performed CPR and held her mother as paramedics arrived and declared Shawntae dead, after Joshua told her to call 911 and lie about an overdose.
- Reporting recounts that Joshua beat Shawntae with objects over a two-day period and forced the children to clean the scene before calling for help.
- The three siblings avoided foster care when an aunt took them in that day and a cousin, Candice, and her husband later adopted them; Aleisha is now studying mass communications at Rose State College.