
The film’s trailer shows the group rehearsing and clips from their performances. It lasted more than an hour, with some people coming out about their own child sexual abuse. The premiere was followed by a Q & A session. The answer was “yes.” Keith Brown is now serving ten years to life for the crimes, and the five siblings – who still perform together – have cut off contact with their mother, Lisa, who they say still defends their father.īen Niles, an Atlanta-based documentary filmmaker, helmed the documentary “Digging Through the Darkness,” which premiered in Salt Lake City Wednesday night to a standing ovation. They asked their sister, Melody, if she had also been abused. In 2007, when they were on tour in Japan, Desirae and Deondra Brown both discovered they had been abused by their father.

SALT LAKE CITY ( News4Utah) – Deondra Brown says she considers child sex abuse equal to murder – the murder of a child’s soul.Ī decade after she and her two sisters realized they had all been sexually abused by their father, the members of the award-winning piano group The 5 Browns are letting audiences in on their pain and healing.
