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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...
Former DCFS worker handling AJ Freund case sentenced to 6 months in jail
WFLD via Yahoo News· 2 weeks 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· 2 weeks agoWOODSTOCK, Ill. — A judge sentenced a former DCFS worker convicted of neglect in the 2019 murder of...
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...
AJ Freund caseworker gets 6 months in jail for child endangerment
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 weeks 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· 2 weeks agoA judge sentenced a former Illinois state child welfare worker to six months in jail Thursday in...
Ex-Illinois child welfare worker guilty of endangerment after boy beaten to death by mom
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA judge convicted a former state child welfare worker Friday of child endangerment in connection with the 2019 beating death of a 5-year-old suburban Chicago boy by his mother, but the judge ...
Indiana boy's death ruled a homicide • Calumet Fisheries reopens • I-57 road rage shooting arrests
WFLD via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoFRIDAY NEWS FLASH - The cause of death was released this week for a 10-year-old boy who died in April after police were called to a home in northwest Indiana for a ‘medical emergency.’ According ...