Aleshia Smith
PER
Smith Aleshia Smith
Smith, who turns 27 on Feb. 21, dropped out of high school in Brooklyn after having her first child. In recent years, she took courses at Touro College in Manhattan. Her life was dominated by her six children, who had four different fathers. Aleshia Smith's oldest daughter was living with a relative, but the apartment on Kossuth Avenue in the Bronx was still crowded with her five other children and two cats. Smith's 4-year-old son, Quachaun Browne, dead and the couple in jail, Mr. Calderon charged with fatally beating the boy, and he cannot stop him.