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WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) – A public visit is scheduled today for a 5-year-old boy from Illinois whose parents are accused of murder following his death.
Andrew "AJ" Freund will be remembered at the Davenport Funeral Home on a Friday afternoon public tour.
The visit is from 13h to 20h.
The boy's parents, JoAnn Cunningham, 36, and Andrew "AJ" Freund Sr, 60, are scheduled to appear in court next week for a preliminary hearing. The authorities accuse the parents of the boy's violent death. Police found her body in a shallow, straw-covered pit on April 24, nine days after the authorities announced her death and a week after her parents reported her disappearance.
An obituary published on the funeral home website said that AJ "was an extremely smart and friendly boy" who could not wait to start kindergarten in the fall.
The court records show that the video police found on the cell phone of an Illinois woman, showing that her 5-year-old son had been injured, had pushed her father to take the investigators to the child's body.
JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund, father of Crystal Lake, are charged with murder following the death of Andrew "AJ" Freund. The investigators found his body on April 24 in a shallow grave.
An affidavit from a detective from McHenry County Sheriff indicates that March's video shows AJ lying naked on a mattress, covered in bruises and bandages.
According to the affidavit, the couple forced AJ to take a cold shower on April 14 as punishment for lying about the fouling of his underwear. Freund told the investigators that they had put the boy to bed and that Cunningham then found him insensitive. Freund says he put AJ's body in a plastic container and buried it afterwards.
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