CA - 6-year old boy beaten to death by babysitter - Sep. 5, 2024

[Clearsky]

Babysitter beat 6-year-old boy to death after he peed his pants at the park, prosecutors say

Family members described the 6-year-old boy, who had just started first grade, as "sweet," "always smiling" and "a great kid."

www.kwtx.com

Ernest Lamar Love, 41, faces charges of murder, torture and child abuse causing death after he allegedly beat 6-year-old Chance Crawford to death while babysitting him, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. He has pleaded not guilty.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

from Babysitter beat 6-year-old boy to death after he peed his pants at the park, prosecutors say:

Love allegedly carried an unconscious Chance into the emergency room at a children’s hospital about 1:30 a.m. last Friday. Doctors say the 6-year-old had raw wounds with most of the skin missing from his buttocks along with brain swelling and bleeding consistent with violent shaking, according to prosecutors.
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Chance’s mother apparently met the suspect at church, KABC reports. The 6-year-old’s family is urging parents to always be aware of who’s watching their children.

 

[modesty blaise]

What in the world??

 

[Niner]

I would love to follow this case - but have no access to Orange County court site... poor Chance... I agree - @modesty blaise - WHAT in the world???

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1831889612224020634

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Surveillance video allegedly shows Love walking into the barbershop with a "large piece of raw lumber with a reluctant Crawford 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 until he collapsed. Love allegedly beat the boy after the first-grader wet his pants at a local park, prosecutors said.

Love is accused of carrying Crawford - unconscious and struggling to breathe - into the ER at Children's Hospital of Orange County around 1:30 a.m. 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."

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

A California 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 earlier this week.

abc7chicago.com

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

Los Angeles Times online September 5, 2024 article by Hannah Fry entitled ‘6-year-old boy dies after being tortured, beaten by babysitter, O.C. prosecutors say’:

6-year-old boy dies after being tortured, beaten by babysitter, O.C. prosecutors say

Chance Crawford, 6, died Tuesday after prosecutors allege he was brutally beaten with a piece of lumber and tortured by a man who was babysitting him.

www.latimes.com

Posting since it includes a photograph of the charged individual Ernest Lamar Love. SMH. Bless the dear poor child. MOO