NEWS
September 6, 1991 | SHERYL STOLBERG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Eldridge Broussard Jr., the Watts minister whose dream of improving inner-city youngsters with a regimen of religion and athletics fell apart amid charges of child abuse, was found dead early Thursday in the Oregon farmhouse where his followers killed his 8-year-old daughter three years ago.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 21, 1988 | SHERYL STOLBERG, Times Staff Writer
The founder of the Watts-based Ecclesia Athletic Assn. took his case to the public on a television talk show Thursday, maintaining that cultural differences are to blame for the allegations of child abuse against his group, which he said "spanked" children but never whipped or beat them. Eldridge Broussard Jr.
NEWS
January 1, 1989 | United Press International
Oregon's Justice Department has entered the legal fight over whether defense attorneys in the upcoming manslaughter trial of four Ecclesia Athletic Assn. members should be allowed to talk to children taken from the group by the state. State Appellate Division attorneys filed a request Friday that the Oregon Supreme Court block a Dec. 7 order by Clackamas County Judge John Lowe giving defense attorneys access to children taken from the group's rural Oregon camp.
NEWS
June 29, 1987 | From United Press International
Eldridge Broussard Jr., the founder of a Los Angeles-based athletic group, met privately Sunday for the first time with neighbors of his Oregon property, telling them he will withdraw an application to house up to 100 people on the land. Neighbor Jack Strand said about 20 residents of this area, 40 miles east of Portland, met at his house with Broussard and three other representatives of the Ecclesia Athletic Assn.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 16, 1988
An Oregon judge has released two of four defendants facing trial in the beating death of the daughter of Ecclesia Athletic Assn. founder Eldridge J. Broussard Jr. and reduced bail for the other two. Clackamas County Circuit Judge John Lowe granted defense motions for the release of Willie K. Chambers, 35, and Constance Z. Jackson, 37. Lowe ordered both to remain in Oregon until their trial, to contact their attorneys in person weekly and not to be in charge of children under 18.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 9, 1988 | United Press International
The FBI is investigating possible civil rights violations involving more than 50 children who were living in the care of the Ecclesia Athletic Assn. until the 8-year-old daughter of the group's founder was beaten to death. The children have been held by the state in protective custody since the Oct. 14 death of Dayna Broussard, the daughter of Eldridge Broussard Jr., founder of Los Angeles-based Ecclesia and its parent group, the Watts Christian Center.