AJ Freund update 27 October 2019

The State Bank of Geneva, who is in charge of AJ Freund Estate, has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois DCFS.  In the suit it states Carlos Acosta, a child protection specialist for DCFS, and his supervisor Andrew R. Polovin of operating a “sham investigation” into prior allegations that AJ was abused and falsifying reports about their work.

The warning signs included:
→ multiple police contacts
→misdemeanor arrests of his parents
→squalid living conditions
→substance abuse
→domestic violence
→the mother’s long history of prior hotline calls

In 2017 and 2018, police officers, medical personnel and AJ’s neighbors made numerous calls to DCFS’ Child Abuse Hotline detailing not only AJ’s observable physical injuries, but also the appalling condition of his home at 94 Dole Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois which he shared with his younger brother Parker. Inexplicably and contrary to DCFS Procedures, only two of the numerous 2017/2018 Hotline Calls were documented and investigated by DCFS, namely a Hotline Call made on 18 March 2018 and a Hotline Call made on 18 December 2018.

The December Hotline Call was initiated by a Crystal Lake police officer who found AJ and his younger brother Parker living in squalid conditions and, after observing a large bruise on AJ’s hip that extended down his thigh, exercised the power granted police officers under ANCRA and placed AJ and his younger brother Parker under protective custody.  While AJ was alone with the emergency room doctor, admitted that the bruise was caused by his mother striking him with a belt.   Acosta falsified the CERAP [Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol] and indicated that AJ’s bruise was caused by a dog and that no safety threats endangered AJ which would warrant taking AJ into protective custody or even warrant the establishment of a family safety plan which would allow DCFS to monitor the situation.

In response to the two Hotline Calls that DCFS deigned to document, the assigned DCFS Child Protection Specialists conducted sham investigations and filed reports which included falsified findings intended to justify their determinations that the allegations of abuse were “Unfounded”.

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