APRIL SAUL / Inquirer
As Crystal Brown recounted her story last week, tears streamed down her cheek. "My kids have to suffer every single day because of what he did to me," she said of her father. Her children are Aylisha and Chris.
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For years, Crystal Brown's father sexually abused her. He got her pregnant, and then pregnant again, fathering her two oldest children. Her father is their father. Because of this, Aylisha and her brother Christopher are losing the ability to walk. For the sake of her children, Crystal finally found the strength to stand up to him and share her story.
Click on the "more photos" link at right to view photos with audio of Crystal Brown and her children. (After opening slideshow, click slider to start audio, which will run as you click through the photos.)
A plea for help
This is the letter through which Brown made public her story of incest and its consequences on her family.
Poems
Poems by Brown about confronting her father and forcing him to accept her children as hisDaughter Aylisha's handwritten poem - "The Way I Feel"
Letters from Joseph Baxter to Brown while he was in prison
These are handwritten and typed versions of two letters that Baxter wrote when Brown was between the ages of 4 and 8:- Feb. 2 (no year indicated)
- Nov. 13 (no year indicated)
- Typed versions of both letters - The letters were typed for legibility.
