Video police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body, according to newly released court records.
WOODSTOCK, Ill. — Video that police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body, according to newly released court records.charged with murder in Andrew"AJ" Freund's death
The video, dated March 4, shows AJ lying naked on a mattress, covered in bruises and bandages, according to an affidavit from McHenry County Sheriff's Detective Edwin Maldonado. Freund told investigators his role in AJ's death when they confronted him with the video, which police recovered after it had been deleted from Cunningham's phone. Maldonado wrote that a female voice"consistent with Joann's is holding the phone and videotaping.
According to the affidavit, the parents forced AJ to take a cold shower April 14 as punishment for lying about soiling his underwear. Freund told investigators they put the boy to bed"cold, wet and naked" and Cunningham later found him unresponsive. Freund said he put AJ's body in a plastic container and stored it in the basement before later burying him. An autopsy found AJ died from multiple blunt force injuries to his head.
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