Ernest Love Charged With Torture, Murder In Brutal Beating Of 6YO Boy For Peeing In His Pants

[Sugar Cookie]

A Placentia barber has been charged with murder and torture for allegedly beating a 6-year-old boy to death with a piece of lumber, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Ernest Lamar Love, 41, has been charged with one felony count of murder, one felony count of torture, and one felony count of child abuse causing death, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.

Prosecutors say 6-year-old Chance Crawford had finished his third day of first grade last Thursday and was dropped off at Love's barbershop while his mother, a nurse's assistant, went to work at a hospital. Love was in charge of babysitting Chance.

Surveillance video allegedly shows Love walking into the barbershop with a "large piece of raw lumber with a reluctant Chance following behind him."

Prosecutors accuse Love of beating the first-grader with the piece of lumber, then pouring hydrogen peroxide on the open wounds before forcing the boy to do push-ups, sit-ups and jumping jacks. Love allegedly beat the boy after the first-grader peed his pants at a local park, prosecutors said.

Love is accused of carrying Chance - unconscious and struggling to breathe - into the ER at Children's Hospital of Orange County early Friday.

"Doctors at CHOC discovered that much of Chance's flesh was missing from his buttocks, leaving raw, gaping wounds, along with subdural hematoma, extreme brain swelling, and other injuries consistent with violent shaking," the DA's office said. "The little boy also had healing fracture on his shoulder blade."

The 6-year-old boy had been in a coma since last Friday after his family says he was brutally beaten by a friend of his mother.

Chance was declared brain dead on Tuesday and taken off life support.

Orange County barber charged with torture, murder in brutal beating of 6-year-old boy

A Placentia barber has been charged with murder and torture for allegedly beating a 6-year-old boy to death with a piece of lumber, prosecutors say.

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[Metalfan]

Do the same to that piece of shit!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Chance Crawford

 

[hiitsme]

Do the same to that piece of shit!

Exactly! Every day, for the rest of his life!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A GoFundMe page was set up to assist Chance's family.

"Chance was a loving, sweet little boy, with a beautiful smile,” the family wrote on the page. “He was always happy, always kind, and always polite. Chance would light up any room he walked in.”

Chance's family added that the 6-year-old boy “loved watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Sesame Street” and that “he was smart, inquisitive, and a great artist.”

“Chance started drawing pictures of his favorite character Mickey Mouse and they looked like they came from a Disney movie,” the family continued. “He was a gifted child and had so much life to live. We’re devastated by the loss of our beautiful, sweet, kind, bright and shining star. This pain is horrible and our family will never recover from the loss. A sweet little boy was taken from us too soon.”

Family Remembers 'Sweet Little Boy' Who Was Allegedly Tortured to Death by Barber with Lumber: Prosecutors

Prosecutors allege the barber was babysitting the child at the time.

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[thuumpr]

Why would Ernest let a 6yo pee in his pants?

 

[Busy Bee]

Such a handsome little man. What a terrible loss. My condolences to Chances Family, grace and comfort to you. Mr love, you took a precious soul away from his Family! For wetting his pants!! Your life is worth less, may your cell mates treat you terribly!

 

[Busy Bee]

I will just never understand how a person could get so twisted up and violent over something that’s just so temporary and trivial?? mr love? Had been violent to Chance before, it probably contributed to him wetting his pants! Sounds like the mother knew he was abusing him, if that’s true she should be prosecuted. Would have taken a hot ten minutes for Chance to clean up and change pants, not a big deal. This should be a death penalty!

 

[cubby]

He reminds me of Rodney Allen Rippy, Jack in the Box commercials in the 70's and 80's. Chance was a beautiful little boy with budding artistic talents.

If wetting his pants was a beating offense, my younger son would have been beat to death daily. When he was playing he would try to hold it so he didn't have to come inside.

People like this who expect a young child to act like an adult are in for a big surprise when they get put in a place where they have no control over themselves or their environment. I hope he wets his pants in fear every day for the rest of his life.

 

[Sugar Cookie]