Ernest Lamar Love, 41, has been charged with murder, torture and child abuse causing death, according to the Orange County, California 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 week, and was dropped off at Love's barbershop around 6:30 p.m., while his mother, a nurse's assistant, went to work at a hospital. Love was in charge of babysitting Crawford.
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."Full story here: https://abc7chicago.com/post/ernest-...shop/15274177/The 6-year-old boy had been in a coma since last Friday, after his family said he was brutally beaten by a friend of his mother, someone she apparently met at church.
Crawford was declared brain-dead on Tuesday and taken off life support.
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Originally Posted by marakisses
that poor little boy. Missing skin on his buttocks?
