Search results
AJ Freund could have been saved from beating death if DCFS workers had asked for help, doctor and...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFive-year-old A.J. Freund’s life could have been saved if child welfare workers had alerted other...
In first conviction of its kind, former Illinois child protection worker found guilty of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCHICAGO — In what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind in Illinois, a...
Ex-child welfare workers don’t testify in their trial related to death of 5-year-old AJ Freund;...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCHICAGO — Two former child welfare workers declined to testify Friday in their trial on charges they...
Former DCFS worker handling AJ Freund case sentenced to 6 months in jail
WFLD via Yahoo News· 1 week agoA former investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services who was found...
Former DCFS worker sentenced to 6 months in AJ Freund case
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 1 week agoWOODSTOCK, Ill. — A judge sentenced a former DCFS worker convicted of neglect in the 2019 murder of...
Two ex-DCFS workers go on trial for child endangerment in murder of 5-year-old AJ Freund in Crystal...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWhen 5-year-old AJ Freund was beaten to death in 2019, outrage focused on his parents, who were convicted and sentenced to prison. Attention then shifted to the handling of the tragedy by child ...
AJ Freund caseworker gets 6 months in jail for child endangerment
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 week agoA former child abuse investigator was sentenced to six months in jail Thursday for failing to protect AJ Freund, a 5-year-old boy killed in 2019 by his mother in Crystal Lake, and welfare workers ...
DCFS workers could’ve saved 5-year-old AJ Freund from beating death if they’d acted on abuse...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA former child welfare supervisor expressed surprise when he saw a picture of a large red bruise on 5-year-old AJ Freund, but suggested acceptance of the boy’s explanation that the dog did it ...
Supervisor denies DCFS workers were ‘lazy’ at endangerment trial in death of 5-year-old AJ Freund
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoQuestioning by defense attorneys Wednesday led to suggestions that former child welfare workers did more to investigate an abuse allegation involving 5-year-old AJ Freund than was reflected ...
Judge sentences former Illinois child welfare worker to jail in boy's death
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 week agoA judge sentenced a former Illinois state child welfare worker to six months in jail Thursday in...