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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 Cou

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