The mother of 5-year-old Andrew Freund, Jr., who was killed in April 2019 after he was beaten and left in a cold shower, was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison.
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Following her prison sentence, Cunningham will serve an additional three years of mandatory supervised release.after a grand jury indicted them on 20 charges each, which included three counts of murder and one count of concealing a death.as part of a deal that dropped all of the other charges. She faced up to a maximum of 60 years in prison. Freund has not changed his plea and is awaiting trial."I had the privilege of having AJ as a son.
A medical examiner testified during the sentencing hearing that Andrew suffered broken ribs and had severe swelling on his brain prior to his death, NBC Chicago reports. Prosecutors also talked about prior incidents of abuse. JoEllen Channon, an emergency room doctor, told the courtroom that during a conversation with Andrew months before his death he said that he had been hit with a belt.
“I asked him if he had been spanked or hit? He said yes. I asked him with what? He said a belt," she said, according to the outlet. “I asked him who did it. He said someone not in my family, but then he offered, maybe mom didn’t mean to hurt me.”
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