bruising or other scars when they saw the children. Some neighbors did experience unusual interactions with the children not seeing them play, and once having one of the children explain she was unable to speak to the neighbor who should instead talk to Ecclesia's minister of external affairs. Some neighbors feared the group was a cult reminiscent of the followers of Rajneesh, who had caused significant disruption in neighboring Wasco County in the 1980s with the establishment of the city of Rajneeshpuram. Their suspicions grew when Ecclesia began planting more crops and attempted to secure zoning permission to place more tents and outdoor toilets across its property in order to legally house 100 people. Neighbors who suspected that the children were being abused repeatedly called authorities. These calls were initially dismissed by officials who felt the group was providing benefit by bringing children out of Watts. A deputy who was dispatched after several complaints found 50 children living in a sweltering garage but took no action, with the Oregon Children's Services Division also declining to investigate, as association members explained the children were in a training session and the agency found no problems with the "camp environment". In response to the complaints, Broussard reacted strongly in an open letter positively comparing their child rearing methods to those of parents who let their kids watch too much television or do drugs. Following an outcry at the zoning application by its neighbors, which included the public release of the vow of poverty, Ecclesia withdrew its application and announced that they were abandoning the property in October 1987. The group had also faced resistance from neighbors in Clackamas, where Broussard was informed his land was zoned for farming, not for housing large numbers of children. Death of Dayna Broussard Members of Ecclesia began returning to the Sandy property between February and October 1988, with most of the children brought there around August. Neighbors reported not hearing any of the children or even seeing lights on in the house except very late at night. Sixty-two people, ranging in age from 1 to 37, were living in the four bedroom house, which had no toilets or refrigerator and no food except a few vegetables. On October 14, 1988, four members of Ecclesia, Willie K. Chambers, Brian James Brinson, Constance Zipporah Jackson, and Frederick Paul Doolittle, brought the body of Dayna Broussard, Eldridge's 8-year-old daughter and