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Aleisha Brown tells PEOPLE that she was 15 and her younger siblings were 14 and 7 when they heard their father Joshua Brown beat their mother to death over a period of 24 hours

After the beating, Joshua made his daughter give her mother a bath, but as her condition deteriorated Aleisha was told to call 911 and tried to save her life by giving her CPR

Shawntae Brown was 34 when she died in the arms of her firstborn daughter Aleisha, and despite struggling to speak, she managed to say one last thing before taking her final breath

When Aleisha Brown was 8-years-old, her mother Shawntae packed her 7-year-old brother and their newborn sister in the car and drove from their home in Oklahoma City to Texas so they could see their father graduate from basic training.

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