Carlos Acosta, a case investigator, was convicted of endangering the life of health of a child in the 5-year-old's death.
A former child welfare worker was found guilty Friday of child endangerment in the beating death of 5-year-old AJ Freund in Crystal Lake, but his supervisor was found not guilty. Carlos Acosta, who was the case investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, was found guilty of endangering the life of health of a child. He was found not guilty of reckless conduct.
Lake County Judge George Strickland said he could not find Acosta’s supervisor, Andrew Polovin, guilty of either charge because he did not know how much Polovin knew about AJ being abused. AJ died in April of 2019 after being beaten by his mother. JoAnn Cunningham. She is in serving a 35-year sentence for his murder. The boy’s father, Andrew Freund Sr., was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his convictions related to covering up the murder by burying the boy’s body in a field.
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