5 Browns Dad Gets 10 Years to Life for Abusing Famous Daughters

Keith Brown, estranged father of the piano-playing Mormon group, is headed to the Big House

By Josh Grossberg Mar 31, 2011 6:02 PMTags
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For the 5 Browns patriarch, this wasn't music to his ears.

Keith Brown, the father of Utah's classical piano-playing sibling sensations, was sentenced today to 10 years to life in Utah state prison for sexually abusing three of his daughters during the '90s, a court clerk confirms to E! News.

On two other charges, he was sentenced to one to 15 years in jail. Those terms will run concurrently.

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Brown, 55, pleaded guilty last month to one first-degree felony count of sodomy on a child and two second-degree felony counts of sexual abuse of a child.

While court records did not disclose the identities of the victims given their minor status at the time of the abuse, Brown daughters Desirae, 32, Deondra, 30, and Melody, 26, have since come forward and issued a joint public statement revealing the clan's dark secret. All are now estranged from their father and reported the abuse to authorities.

The elder Brown was accused of sexually abusing the children between November 1990 and October 1992 and March 1997 and March 1998.