Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WOODSTOCK, Ill. — A judge sentenced a former DCFS worker convicted of neglect in the 2019 murder of 5-year-old AJ Freund from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montise Bulley puts flowers at his son's headstone at Inglewood Park Cemetery. (Zoe Cranfill / Los Angeles Times) Secret Daniel ...

Questioning 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 in their ...

WOODSTOCK, Ill. (WLS) -- The defense rested its case Friday in the case against two former DCFS employees charged in connection with the death of five-year-old A.J. Freund. Witnesses testified ...

A former employee with Illinois' Department of Child and Family Services was sentenced to jail Thursday for mishandling the case of 5-year-old A.J. Freund, who was beaten to death in his Crystal Lake ...

Louisiana child welfare workers “took no action whatsoever” to try to ensure the safety of 2-year-old Mitchell Robinson III, who overdosed and died from fentanyl in 2022 in Baton Rouge and whose death ...

Back in 1988, two Illinois DCFS workers were indicted by a Cook County grand jury and prosecuted by then State’s Attorney Richard J. Daley. This was in response to the horrific murder of Jonathon ...

A former first assistant in the Sangamon County State's Attorney's office said Deidre (Graham) Silas was "just doing her job protecting kids" when the child protection specialist was fatally stabbed ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A former Utah DCFS worker is accused of tampering and leaking protected information during a child abuse investigation. Probable cause documents say on June 13, police ...

Secret Daniel was supposed to keep the bubbly toddler safe. As a monitor approved by the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services, she was responsible for supervising the Feb. 18 visit ...