Aleisha Smith pleaded guilty on June 19 for her role in the beating death of her 4-year-old son, Quachaun Browne, last January in her Kossuth Avenue apartment.
Smith’s boyfriend, Jose Calderon, 18, is charged with murder for allegedly hitting the 4-year-old in the head and body using his fists, a belt, a plastic bat, and by banging his head against a wall. The child died one day before his fifth birthday and just two weeks after the brutal death of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown.
Smith will be sentenced next month at Bronx Supreme Court and could face up to seven and a half years in prison. She was convicted of first-degree manslaughter for failing to get prompt medical attention for the child even though she had observed multiple bruises, frequent bleeding from his ear and vomiting of blood.
Calderon has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
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