Ecclesia Member Gets 10 Years in Girl’s Death
The Oregon Board of Parole Wednesday ordered a member of the Watts-based Ecclesia Athletic Assn. to serve 10 years in prison for the beating death of an 8-year-old girl.
The board set the term for Constance Jackson, one of four Ecclesia members convicted of manslaughter in the October, 1988, death of Dayna Broussard. She was the daughter of Eldridge Broussard Jr., a Los Angeles minister and former college basketball star who founded Ecclesia to save children from the bad influences of ghetto life.
The girl was killed during a discipline session at a farm operated by Broussard’s Watts Christian Center church in Sandy, Ore.
Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge John Lowe originally gave Jackson a 20-year maximum sentence, with parole eligibility in five years.
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