Afternoon Briefing: Ex-child welfare workers don't testify in trial related to 5-year-old's death
Good afternoon, Chicago. Two former child welfare workers declined to testify today in their trial on charges they failed to protect 5-year-old AJ Freund before his death at the hands of his mother in Crystal Lake in 2019. Carlos Acosta, a former investigator for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, and his supervisor, Andrew Polovin, both declined to tell their side of the ...