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   AROUND  THE  NATION;  3  Charged  in  Fatal  Beating  Of Group
Leader's Daughter.

   PORTLAND, Ore. - Three people have been charged with murder in
the death  of  the  8-year-old  daughter  of  the  founder  of  a
controversial youth  group.    Authorities  said  the girl, Dayna
Lorea Broussard, was beaten to death.

   Meanwhile, her grandfather, Eldridge  J.  Broussard  Sr.,  who
described  himself  as  a bishop of the youth group, the Ecclesia
Athletic Association, said it was in "God's plan" that she should
die.

   The Los Angeles-based group, which  represents  itself  as  an
athletic  training  center for underprivileged children but whose
critics have called a church, was founded by Eldridge J.Broussard
Jr.,  a  former  college basketball star at Pacific University in
Forest Grove, Ore.  He has denied the group is a cult.

   Constance Zipporah Jackson, 37, and Fredrick  Paul  Doolittle,
28,  both  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Willie K. Chambers, 35, of San
Diego, were charged with murder after Chambers  and  three  other
Ecclesia  staff  members  took  the girl's body to a fire station
Friday and an autopsy showed she had been beaten to death.

   Friday night, Clackamas County authorities  took  53  children
into protective custody from a farm used by Ecclesia.

   The  elder  Broussard,  who  said his son left Los Angeles for
Oregon after learning of Dayna Broussard's death,  said  she  was
among Ecclesia  children  in  Oregon for a vacation.  But he also
said they were being trained for work and sports.  He said he did
not  know  whether  children  at  the  farm   were   beaten   for
disciplinary reasons.