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Deseret News
By Ben Lockhart, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Two members of the famed piano group The 5 Browns are working with Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., to promote a bill that would incentivize states to reconsider their statute of limitations laws with regard to sexual crimes.
Deondra Brown said she and sister Desirae have been in meetings with Reid as he prepares a draft of the bill and looks for a co-sponsor.
“(The bill) would help the states, (encourage) them to change their statute of limitations laws,”Deondra Brown said.
The sisters founded the Foundation for Survivors of Abuse after their father, Keith Brown, was sentenced to prison in 2011 for sexually abusing his daughters over a period of several years in the 1990s.
“We started receiving emails from victims all over the country saying that they were not allowed by their statute of limitations to prosecute when they were finally ready,” Deondra Brown said. “We realized what a big problem it is for victims (not) to be able to have that closure and that opportunity to prosecute and put these criminals away.”
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