‘The Absolute Terror’: California Barber Babysitting 6-Year-Old Boy While Mom Was at Work Beats Child to Death with ‘Raw Lumber’ Because He Wet His Pants, Prosecutors Say

Charlyn Saffore had no reason to suspect something would go wrong when she asked Ernest Lamar Love, a “trusted friend” she met at church, to babysit her 6-year-old son, Chance Crawford. It was only after she received a call from Love that he was rushing Chance to a hospital that she realized she was living her worst nightmare.   6-year-old Chance was beaten to death by a trusted friend of the family. (Credit: Charlyn Saffore) Love, a 41-year-old barber from Placentia, California, allegedly became so enraged with her son when he peed his pants while at a park that he tortured and murdered the boy, beating him to death with a “large piece of raw lumber.” Love 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 bond. “I was genuinely blindsided. I trusted him with my son,” Saffore said through tears on ABC7 Eyewitness News. “He died a brutal death. It was brutal. He did not deserve to go out that way.”The disastrous incident began when she dropped Chance...