Monster babysitter be@t 6-year-old boy to d3ath after he wet himself at a local park

A California barber allegedly t0rtured and m¥rdered a 6-year-old boy he was watching after meeting the boy’s mother at church.

Ernest Lamar Love, 41, is accused of beating young Chance Crawford to death with a piece of wood after the boy peed his pants at a local park, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Chance’s mother Charlyn Saffore dropped the boy off at Love’s barbershop in Placentia around 6:30pm so she could go work the night shift at St. Joseph’s Hospital. 

She met Love through church and considered him a trusted friend, according to a post she made on Instagram before the child’s death.

However,  Love repeatedly hit Chance with the piece of lumber and then poured hydrogen peroxide on his wounds before forcing the first-grader to do “push-ups, sit-ups, and jumping jacks,” according to prosecutors.

Security cameras captured Love entering his own barber shop around three hours before the assault holding the piece of lumber “with a reluctant Chance following behind him,” according to the district attorney.

Chance eventually collapsed and prosecutors say Love drove the boy, who was “unconscious and struggling to breathe,” to the emergency room at CHOC Hospital at around 1:30am.

That’s when doctors witnessed Chance’s severe injuries.

“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 little boy also had a healing fracture on his shoulder blade,” according to the charging document, which had some family members on social media questioning if there had been prior abuse.

Chance fought for his life in the hospital but ultimately died from his injuries on Tuesday afternoon, September 3.

He was just three days into first grade.

Vance Crawford, the child’s father, posted a black-and-white version of the image of his son wearing a crown.

“I lost a son yesterday the anger I feel is unmatched … but I will get justice,” he wrote. “Rip son Daddy loves you.”

Crawford described to KTLA the horrifying ordeal he was put through watching Chance pass away.

“Seeing my son like that and in the condition he was in, in critical condition from the time he was brought in, it’s just devastating,” Crawford said. “He didn’t even die peacefully. He died a tragic death and it’s not fair.”

Crawford considers Love “a monster.”

“He deserves what’s coming. I’m going to let God handle him.”

Charlyn Saffore, Chance’s mother, also remembered her son, describing him as “a light to the world he lived in.”

“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we have to share the unexpected passing of my beloved son, Chance. He passed…at the hands of someone who I thought was a trusted friend,” she wrote on Instagram.

“Chance was a dearly loved son, grandson, and a light to the world he lived in. He was only 6 years old and he was intelligent, lively, sharp, witty, and had a smile that would light up an entire room. 

“If you knew him, you would have loved him like his entire community did,” Saffore wrote on Instagram.

Saffore set up a GoFundMe to pay for funeral expenses. So far, people have donated $15,263 toward her $20,000 goal. 

KTLA reported that Saffore met Love at Amazing Church in Lake Elsinore.

A church leader said Love was suspended from the church for inappropriate relationships with female parishioners.

An anonymous man who used to go to the church described Love as a womanizer with an anger problem. 

“Every few months, he would show have a different woman there at the church,” a former church member said.

He continued: “He was kind of stern…He would get angry about certain things, you could see it on him, but I never saw him take it out on kids.”

Love pleaded not guilty to the four charges against him, which include murder, torture, and assault on a child with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death, and causing injuries leading to paralysis or death.

He was arraigned Wednesday morning, September 4, and is being held without bail.

Love faces a maximum sentence of 32 years to life in prison plus five years if he’s found guilty on all charges.