SLO County District Attorney Dan Dow. (Photo: sloda.ca.gov)
Baby Murderer Granted Early Parole Thanks to Prop 57
Herbert Brown beat his two-year-old daughter to death in 2013
By Katy Grimes, April 28, 2025 12:20 pm
San Luis Obispo District Attorney Dan Dow just sent California Governor Gavin Newsom a letter urging reversal of the Board of Parole Hearings’ decision to release Allie Brown (formerly Herbert David Brown, III) early from prison.
This is “Allie Brown’s” booking photo:
“Precious Lily deserves better. The time is now Governor Newsom, please help ensure that we have Justice for Lily Brown!” DA Dow said.
DA Dow’s letter asks Gov. Newsom:
“to review the grant of parole to inmate Allie Hazel Brown (CDCR# AY2227) and to reverse the grant of parole that has now been affirmed by the Board of Parole Hearings en banc.
We have reviewed the record and have concluded that Inmate Brown remains a dangerous threat to public safety. Inmate Brown was granted parole on October 30, 2024 having previously pled guilty to second degree murder, accepting a term of 15 years to life. Inmate Brown entered prison in November 2015. You referred this case for an en banc hearing which occurred on April 22, 2025. There, the board of parole affirmed their previous grant of parole.
Brown murdered Brown’s own daughter, Lily Brown, when Lily was not yet 2 years old and still in diapers. Inmate Brown, then a male (formerly Herbert David Brown), had a relationship with Lily’s mother, Dawn. On February 18, 2013, Lily was with Brown when police were called after Lily became nonresponsive. Inmate Brown told police that the baby’s bruises, seen on her legs and head, were from playing and the dog pulled on a leash that she held, slamming Lily into a door jamb.
Lily was in critical condition and taken to a children’s hospital at Stanford Medical Center. The doctor there found numerous bruises which he opined were 2 to 3 days old. Subsequently, a CAT scan revealed that Lily had suffered a fractured skull and hemorrhaging in her brain. The doctor’s diagnosis was that the baby was violently shaken and her head was slammed against something hard at least once.
Due to the extent of baby Lily’s injuries, at the age of only 22 months, she was taken off life support. Then Lily was pronounced dead.”
DA Dow’s letter is embedded below.
What Mr. Brown did to that baby should have guaranteed him a life sentence in prison. Only those deliberately unraveling California’s criminal justice system would think otherwise.
From DA Dow’s press release:
“It is shameful for the Parole Board to grant Herbert David Brown III early release from prison,” said District Attorney Dan Dow. “Mr. Brown was convicted of murdering his own 22-month young daughter Lily due to abuse he inflicted upon her while he was using and under the influence of methamphetamine. Brown, who now identifies as a woman and goes by the name ‘Allie Brown,’ was sentenced to serve 15-years-to-life and should have served every day of the 15 years before being considered for possible parole. I ask the Board of Parole Hearings: ‘Where is the justice for Baby Lily?’”
“Herbert Brown beat his two-year-old daughter to death in 2013. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15-to-life, of which he has only done 12 years,”
Perhaps even more important, said the does not believe that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has this power. “The Sacramento Superior Court agreed. See this press release from December 2023. CDCR appealed and asked for a stay. CJLF opposed the stay. Judge Rockwell granted a partial stay, allowing the Board of Parole Hearings to continue holding parole hearings and issuing decisions but forbidding CDCR from releasing the illegally early parolees.”
Scheidegger’s press release reports on Sacramento Superior Court Judge Jennifer Rockwell’s decision “that the Newsom Administration’s effort to grant early releases to tens of thousands of prison inmates is invalid when it comes to offenders sentenced to indeterminate sentences, most of whom are sentenced for violent crimes.” Oral argument on the appeal is May 20.
DA Dow is also working for the reversal of Proposition 57, passed by California voters in 2016, which assured voters that only non-violent offenders would be considered for early parole. We knew then and have proof now, that Prop 57 promoters were lying, and the Lily Brown case is evidence.
DA Dow says Mr. Brown was convicted and sentenced to a minimum of 15 years to life. At the time of his conviction, the law stated that in order to be considered for parole, the convict must first serve every day of the minimum – in this case, 15 years. Proposition 57 gave offenders extra credits toward their sentence, leading to early eligibility – retroactively.
“The CDCR has been releasing violent criminals, including murderers, years earlier than the law allows,” said CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger. “Some of these released criminals have committed new violent crimes,” he added.
Here is DA Dow’s letter:
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I think it’s possible that these seemingly impossible demands, because that’s what I think they are, no longer the nudges of a progressive left, will later be used against Newsom, if not complied with by the new murderous party he created.
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What can you even say about this outrage. To even CONSIDER parole for this animal who murdered his baby daughter is simply not acceptable. Of course the Prop 57 crowd lied to us that it wouldn’t apply to violent criminals and of course we were warned many, many, many times about these lies.
Appreciate D.A. Dan Dow’s efforts to speak up and petition Gavin Newsom to try to put a stop to this scandalous injustice. Also appreciate, as always, Katy Grimes’ coverage of important stories like this one.
By the way, notice how this baby-daughter-murderer adds insult to injury by calling himself a woman, doubtless so he could be housed with women in order to protect his behind from male prisoners who might actually take exception to the nature of this sub-human’s brutal crime.
R.I.P. 2 year old Lily Brown
And here we are. If you are a male prisoner all you have to do is say that you now “identify as female” and then you get transferred to female prison so that you can prey upon the female inmates and are then put to the front of the line for early release because according to the Democrats you are “special” and deserve to be free regardless of the heinous crime you might have committed. it’s absolutely disgusting.
Democrats love to signal what virtue they still possess. If truth would be one, then Democrat D.As should adopt a new lapel pin. May I suggest, in the form of a prison cell door that flops open at the slightest body motion.
Man or woman, the murderer is not fit to be released, EVER!
The dude became a dudette most likely to run away from himself! Dude, you will always have to live with your horrendous crime! There is no escape, no matter how you identify!
BABY KILLERS have no place in this society.