Social services workers assigned to the case of now-deceased boy, A.J. Freund, were apparently overloaded with cases during the time they made visits to the child’s home. It’s an ongoing problem with the Illinois Department of Family and Children Services, according to recent information revealed to a federal judge. Chicago Tribune reports that a lawyer …
Two Illinois Department of Family Children Services employees were relieved from their duties on Friday, while officials continue to investigate the workers’ past interactions with slain boy A.J. Freund and his family. According to DCFS, the agency is “conducting a comprehensive review of our work” with the family of the 5-year-old boy, who was found dead …
Andrew “AJ” Freund, a 5-year-old Illinois boy found dead and buried in a shallow grave on Wednesday, died from numerous blunt force injuries to his head, according to the McHenry County Coroner’s Office. McHenry County Interim Coroner David Devane, who released the boy’s official cause of death results on Thursday afternoon, noted that A.J. had …
He was born with opioids in his system and police officers were called to his home numerous times. Yet for years, the Illinois Department of Family and Children’s Services allowed 5-year-old A.J. Freund to live in a reported filthy, decrepit unsafe home, until his death earlier this month. “This agency, there is no direction, no …
