After a woman left her grandchildren inside a car for less than a minute while wheeling her sick daughter into the Atrium Medical Center emergency room in Middletown, Ohio, a car thief took the opportunity to jump in the woman’s car and drive off, almost taking an 8-year-old and his 10-year-old sister with him. “I …
A Texas mom is behind bars for the death of her 6-week-old baby daughter but insists her “rough” toddler son must have killed the baby. Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that 25-year-old Halle Marie Murry said she woke up on January 14 to find her 6-week-old infant’s lifeless body in the floor, while her 3-year-old son …
The family of a 5-year-old Minnesota boy who was thrown from the third-floor balcony at the Minneapolis Mall of America earlier this month, is no longer in critical condition. ABC reports that the family’s lawyer, Stephen Tillitt, read a statement written by the family of young boy, Landen, who has been unconscious for two weeks …
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 …
California authorities released a new sketch of a man accused of trying to kidnap a girl as she walked to school on Thursday morning. ABC reports that according to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident took place at around 7:45 a.m., off of the 1700 block of Vineyard Avenue in Los Angeles. A young girl …
A Tennessee woman is behind bars after police say she shared two videos to social media, showing her raping a 4-year-old boy. CBS 3 Memphis reports that police received a call Monday after someone online saw disturbing videos being shared across social media. After viewing the videos and investigating, authorities arrested 24-year-old Tamara Marion and …
Grim details emerged during a Thursday morning hearing in the case of 5-year-old Illinois boy, A.J. Freund. The child’s parents faced a judge on murder and other charges, while their bail was set at $5 million each. As Andrew Freund Sr. and JoAnn Cunningham stood in orange jumpsuits during a hearing at the McHenry County …
Four nearly four days, two young children were trapped inside a California home after their father reportedly shot their mother to death, then turned the gun on himself. Los Angeles Daily News reports that a shooting in a Chatsworth neighborhood was reported to police on Sunday afternoon, although neighbors said something likely happened days earlier, …
The state of Illinois plans to investigate to see if the Department of Children and Family Services were neglectful in connection with 5-year-old A.J. Freund, a boy found dead Wednesday, wrapped in plastic and placed in a shallow grave. Authorities found A.J. on Wednesday, buried in a rural area in Woodstock, Illinois, a few miles …
Police records were released Tuesday by the Illinois Department of Family and Children Services, preceding the announcement that 5-year-old boy, Andrew “A.J.” Freund had been found deceased. The documents provide a more in-depth look at the boy’s living conditions prior to his death, as well as accusations of abuse and neglect. A.J. disappeared from his …
