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Keith Brown, the father of the 5 Browns, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years to life in prison for sexually abusing his three daughters when they were children.
“I do believe you are a pedophile. I do believe you are a danger to society,” U.S. District Judge David Mortensen told Brown, 55, during the sentencing in Provo, near the Utah home base of the popular piano-playing quintet in Alpine.
“I think it’s obvious a home should be a refuge and a safe place, and that a parent should be a protector,” the judge added, noting the abuses were not isolated incidents but “went on for years.”
The Brown children – Desirae, Deondra, Gregory, Melody and Ryan – who are now in their 20s and 30s, are on tour in Florida and did not attend the hearing.
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