2 ex-child welfare workers face charges in slain boy case
(McHenry County Sheriff's Office via AP)WOODSTOCK, Ill. โ Two former Illinois child welfare workers who investigated abuse allegations involving a 5-year-old boy allegedly killed months later by his parents have been charged with child endangerment. Acosta, 54, and Polovin, 48, were released later Thursday from the McHenry County Jail after posting bond, jail records show. The boy's parents, Andrew Freund and Joann Cunningham, were charged with first-degree murder in his beating death. But McHenry County Stateโs Attorney Patrick Kenneally told the Northwest Herald that a grand jury approved the charges against the men Thursday. Acosta and Polovin are named in a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the slain boyโs estate, which represents his three siblings.