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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...
Former DCFS worker handling AJ Freund case sentenced to 6 months in jail
WFLD via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA former investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services who was found...
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...
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· 3 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 ...
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 ...
Prosecutor opposes bill to help moms whose babies are born with drugs in system
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA proposal to change the way Illinois handles new mothers with drug-use disorders is meant to prioritize treatment, but it has prompted “grave concerns” from a prosecutor who oversaw one infamous ...
Illinois DCFS director to step down after agency hit with another scathing audit
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 9 months ago“Illinois foster children had been ‘anguishing’ in psychiatric hospitals, staying ‘beyond medical...