The ELLA Foundation™

The ELLA Foundation™ is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation based in San Antonio, TX. Our mission is to prevent violence and to advocate for human rights through education, criminal justice reform, and victim advocacy.

In March of 1980 my father, James Robert Bennett Jr. was murdered in our home. My mother was subsequently arrested, charged, tried, and acquitted of murder-for-hire. She would have faced the death penalty had she been found guilty. I was 6 years old.

In February of 2007, after convincing the babysitter to go home, my son Paris sexually assaulted, beat, choked, and stabbed his little sister Ella seventeen times. He was arrested, charged, and pled true (the juvenile equivalent of guilty) to capital murder. He was 13; Ella was 4.

The ELLA Foundation™ is the child born of my pain. Stay tuned for updates and information concerning the projects and progress of The ELLA Foundation™. At this time please have faith, as I do, this child will be…almost…the most amazing I have birthed.

Love is the only weapon we should use to make the world a better place. The ELLA Foundation™ is my Pentagon.