Found Deceased IL - Andrew Freund, 5, Crystal Lake, 17 April 2019 *Arrests* - #3

[girlhasnoname]

LE Did everything in their power to get Andrew out of there.
The power was in DCSF hands,and that ER. DR. didn't even raise one brow, over what Andrew said.
WTF?
So all five years of Andrews short pain filled life
The parents words, rights over rode all else.
Everyone that had contact with Andrew,and power to to stop this, (other than LE,and Granparents,neighbors)coddled,and cowtoed to Joann,and Sr.
WHY? Why were these two treated like untouchables, above the law?
Why did those in power bend over backwards for them?


SMH.

I'm going to speculate that is was because this was an educated "lawyer" in an middle/upper class neighborhood and the agencies may have been intimidated about legal recourse. It's inexcusable and disgusting, but I cannot think how AJ's consistent injuries and the parents history of drug abuse didn't raise the flag sooner.

I cannot imagine what the foster parents of this sweet boy are enduring. They have to be heartbroken. In pictures posted much earlier by 'mom', it looked like AJ was a happy little 2 or 3 year old when reunited. His pictures and the posts in the following years show a steady decline IMO. No longer looking carefree, happy and smiling.

jmo

 

[Trudie]

Or too high

Probably just one more burden to him.
And bring the shovel inside the house. Why?

 

[Trudie]

I'm going to speculate that is was because this was an educated "lawyer" in an middle/upper class neighborhood and the agencies may have been intimidated about legal recourse. It's inexcusable and disgusting, but I cannot think how AJ's consistent injuries and the parents history of drug abuse didn't raise the flag sooner.

I cannot imagine what the foster parents of this sweet boy are enduring. They have to be heartbroken. In pictures posted much earlier by 'mom', it looked like AJ was a happy little 2 or 3 year old when reunited. His pictures and the posts in the following years show a steady decline IMO. No longer looking carefree, happy and smiling.

jmo

At my local Starbucks this morning, I caught a bit of convo between two local women:

Woman 1) hey, good to see you, you workin’ again

Woman 2) kinda, takin care of kids

Woman 1) babysitting?

Woman 2) no we are foster parents, not fun but pays the bills.

Made me cringe......

 

[nyvictoria]

The hospital did not report, isn't that odd???? That's the biggest red flag it isn't true. If a 5 and 3 year old come to ET with an ODed mom and bruises the police are called. They can't just let the kids set in the waiting room unattended. If she ODed with the kids and the hospital didn't call, they are the lowest of low and blantant neglect!!!! The CPS worker visited the home the same day and spoke with JC while the kids played outside. Don't you think if she ODed and the kid had bruise she would have documented.

Just like the mom said he was burned, never reported not one word. NO CPS report nothing.

I h!!!! this mom but either some folks are not truthful or the dang town is crooked. These are mandated reporters, hospitals have strict guidelines on reporting, risk management teams, lawyers CEOs screaming liability all the time. The Dr's and nurses can lose their license and be procedures for neglect.

bbm

It’s mind-boggling!! What ever the case, it’s got to be thoroughly investigated, the results disclosed publicly and the people/agencies found responsible must be held accountable!!

 

[Trudie]

I'm going to speculate that is was because this was an educated "lawyer" in an middle/upper class neighborhood and the agencies may have been intimidated about legal recourse. It's inexcusable and disgusting, but I cannot think how AJ's consistent injuries and the parents history of drug abuse didn't raise the flag sooner.

I cannot imagine what the foster parents of this sweet boy are enduring. They have to be heartbroken. In pictures posted much earlier by 'mom', it looked like AJ was a happy little 2 or 3 year old when reunited. His pictures and the posts in the following years show a steady decline IMO. No longer looking carefree, happy and smiling.

jmo

Yeah, the lawyer in the middle/upper class foreclosure frequently with no electric, broken windows & the smell of feces & urine surrounding it.

When the Judge decided AJ would be best served living with monsters I guess they presented clean pee a time or two & a diploma from a parenting workshop, all court ordered.

 

[nyvictoria]

According to what I have read, parents do not have to give DCFS access to their child or their home. A report was made about Andrew and contact was attempted weekly for a month. Notice dad was not present. Plenty of time to get the home and their act together for a visit. BBM.

From the DCFS memo:

03/21/18: DCFS received a hotline report that alleged substantial risk of physical injury/injurious environment and environment neglect against the mother and father. The report alleged that the mother was brought to the emergency room after being found unresponsive in a car. Andrew was observed at the hospital to have odd bruising on his face. DCFS investigator contacted the parents in unsuccessful attempt to see the children on 03/21/18, 3/29/18 and 4/9/18.

04/25/18: DCFS investigator met with JoAnn, Andrew and his younger brother. JoAnn was interviewed while the boys played outside in the driveway of the home. DCFS investigator observed the boys to be clean and did not find signs of maltreatment

So she had from 3/21 until 4/25 to clean the house and present the kids bruise-free? Ridiculous!!

 

[Trudie]

So she had from 3/21 until 4/25 to clean the house and present the kids bruise-free? Ridiculous!!

And to get on Suboxone, if drug tested knowing her history they’d prefer to find Subs over clean urine, as it would appear she was working on her addiction.
Clean urine in an addict is as suspicious as dirty, at least in our drug court.

 

[Herat]

Interesting. I’ve been taking low dose opioids for chronic pain from RSD and spine issues for about 12 years. I don’t abuse them and usually can go two to three months on what would be considered a one month prescription. If I didn’t have my prescription I would be stuck in the house and probably bed-ridden.
I have to jump thru many hoops to get my Rx: urine screen every visit, unscheduled pill counts, signed contract with my Dr. I have to get an MRI every 18 months and go to regular physical therapy. I also go in for nerve blocks every 6 months or so. If I should lose my rx or pill bottle or if it’s “stolen” I’m out of luck til next visit. In NY all Rx go into state database to prevent doctor shopping although that’s only been done for the past 4 years or so. My Pain Mgmt Dr insisted on all this when I first went to him 12 yrs ago. It doesn’t bother me at all to have to do these things. If all MDs would stick to procedures like this, there would probably be a lot less new addicts. There should be uniform regulations across the country to monitor Dr prescribed opioid use. OD death stats are artificially low now because of Narcan.

Thanks for sharing this.

It is important to remember that opiates do have a very legitimate place in pain control and are really needed in medicine to improve surgical recovery and to provide people with chronic diseases and malignancy with a more active life. Fentanyl is a very very good anesthetic for surgery and anesthesiologists rely on it. It was good in the patches for cancer and chronic pain patients, but those with drug habituations soon figured out the drug could be leached out of the patches and injected. Demerol is a fabulous injectable narcotic for immediate post-surgical pain. I love it after an abdominal surgery and can see why people could get hooked on that. And oral narcotics pills are very good for certain uses too. I had a complicated leg fracture and was given a morphine pump in the hospital and Oxycontin when I got home. I think I only took 3 of the Oxycontin during my 6 week recovery, during the first week to get to sleep from the deep throbbing pain. But as I healed, I just didn't need it anymore.

I haven't had the chronic pain problems that @nyvictoria describes, but I can see that chronic opiods have a place in life maintenance and that there really is a need for close monitoring of patient and physician. At least there is a specialty called Pain Control that takes the issue of chronic pain management out of the hands of those who are subject to abusing prescribing or using these drugs. I know that primary care physicians and ER physicians are now very much monitored and targeted because they are 0ften the first line MD that drug seekers contact.

So we can at least get tighter regulation of the professional side of drug distribution. Getting this illegal stuff off of our streets and away from our vulnerable younger population is the challenge I just can't fathom the way out of

 

[Trudie]

Troubled family history of slain Crystal Lake boy AJ Freund reveals missed warning signs, failed chances to intervene

Only reposting this link for anyone that missed a good summation of events.

 

[Trudie]

Did AJ’s foster parent (cousin) remain in his life after he was removed from her care?
I hope he had one person, yes, one person in this big, ugly world that he looked forward to seeing.
I picture him cowered down, like an abused animal, pretty much of the time, knowing a punch, kick or shove would soon be coming his way.

 

[Knox]

The prescription was not for A.J., it belongs to her. she stated that her fiance "D" left the home a week prior to go to the city after an argument. Then on 12/18/18, she noticed that her 2 prescriptions were missing. She went to taco bell in the red mercury registered to A.F. to use the phone to call the police.

She described him as being 6 foot 4 tattoos on his face black pants and a black hoodie.

SEECOM advised the Officers to approach with caution due to the fact that he is listed as a gang member with the Latin Eagles gang.

Officers located him later and were advised by SEECOM that he was on parole and his licence was revoked. He did not have the items on his person.

Nice guy to have living with your children huh! Do not know if child services knew he lived there but I would think that they want to know everyone living in the home. I do not know how that works here in Illinois.

Ahh, so this is the backstory to Daniel's arrest in December last year. So she would have been three months pregnant at that time. Wonder what the scripts were for and if she knew she was pregnant at that time?

He is actually in jail for assaulting an EMT and two nurses. So they took him to the hospital after they arrested him? Wonder why?

 

[Herat]

And to get on Suboxone, if drug tested knowing her history they’d prefer to find Subs over clean urine, as it would appear she was working on her addiction.
Clean urine in an addict is as suspicious as dirty, at least in our drug court.

This is SUCH a good point

I have a friend who is a PhD biochemical analyst who runs a toxicology section of a major laboratory. So essentially his job is to supervise and interpret the results of thousands of these mandated urine test for major pain management clinics.

The major pharmaceutical drugs of abuse have very characteristic chemical metabolite patterns that can be identified with certainty. These are the compliant chronic pain patients whose drug screen show exactly the same chemical patterns test after test. He tells me that the majority of his work is positive screens that have different patterns, trying to figure out what stuff someone took, and it is only getting worse because a sophisticated chemist tweaking just one molecule in a narcotic base can create a new or different pattern. And you'd be surprised about how sophisticated some drug users are in chemical detection. I'm not ready to say it's a losing battle, but it's a very expensive and growing problem for our financial and personnel resources.

 

[Herat]

Ahh, so this is the backstory to Daniel's arrest in December last year. So she would have been three months pregnant at that time. Wonder what the scripts were for and if she knew she was pregnant at that time?

He is actually in jail for assaulting an EMT and two nurses. So they took him to the hospital after they arrested him? Wonder why?

He may have claimed to be injured in the assaults / arrests and LE would want a medical clearance, and maybe a forensic drug screen collected before incarceration.

 

[borndem]

View attachment 181548 @osu there’s a stark contrast in the photos you posted & this one. The shape of his head is very concerning in this image. Frequent beatings?


Dent in Head: Causes and Treatment

It does look different, but in the prior photos, AJ has a very different haircut/style. In the second photo, the hair on the top of his side is slightly left of center. I think the weird (IMO) haircut influences how my eyes compare the two pics. But it does look a bit dented. Dunno what to think.

 

[Trudie]

This is SUCH a good point

I have a friend who is a PhD biochemical analyst who runs a toxicology section of a major laboratory. So essentially his job is to supervise and interpret the results of thousands of these mandated urine test for major pain management clinics.

The major pharmaceutical drugs of abuse have very characteristic chemical metabolite patterns that can be identified with certainty. These are the compliant chronic pain patients whose drug screen show exactly the same chemical patterns test after test. He tells me that the majority of his work is positive screens that have different patterns, trying to figure out what stuff someone took, and it is only getting worse because a sophisticated chemist tweaking just one molecule in a narcotic base can create a new or different pattern. And you'd be surprised about how sophisticated some drug users are in chemical detection. I'm not ready to say it's a losing battle, but it's a very expensive and growing problem for our financial and personnel resources.

Smart friend! Wow
Some drug users & criminals forget the simplest details, too. We had one woman in drug court for doctor shopping.
She would go out of state, even. Problem was, her Irvine was pristine. She was simply an ‘unlicensed pharmaceutical rep’, making a nice income. When busted, she lied, claiming she had a habit.

 

[Thora_Jay]

Ahh, so this is the backstory to Daniel's arrest in December last year. So she would have been three months pregnant at that time. Wonder what the scripts were for and if she knew she was pregnant at that time?

He is actually in jail for assaulting an EMT and two nurses. So they took him to the hospital after they arrested him? Wonder why?

Yes that is who she said took her phone and 2 prescriptions.

When he was at the Northwest medical Center he was there for a psychiatric evaluation when he assaulted 2 nurses and the hospital security guard.
He assaulted the fireman on 2/05/04

 

[Trudie]

It does look different, but in the prior photos, AJ has a very different haircut/style. In the second photo, the hair on the top of his side is slightly left of center. I think the weird (IMO) haircut influences how my eyes compare the two pics. But it does look a bit dented. Dunno what to think.

I hope the hair is influencing my vision. Even the back of his head looks distorted to me. His ears also look much dif’ from the earlier photos. I wonder if she drugged him?
The changes in his appearance seem most dramatic for a child, imo.

 

[Knox]

I'm going to speculate that is was because this was an educated "lawyer" in an middle/upper class neighborhood and the agencies may have been intimidated about legal recourse. It's inexcusable and disgusting, but I cannot think how AJ's consistent injuries and the parents history of drug abuse didn't raise the flag sooner.

I cannot imagine what the foster parents of this sweet boy are enduring. They have to be heartbroken. In pictures posted much earlier by 'mom', it looked like AJ was a happy little 2 or 3 year old when reunited. His pictures and the posts in the following years show a steady decline IMO. No longer looking carefree, happy and smiling.

jmo

What's interesting is AF Senior was far from what you describe above, and I would think DCFS knew his history. He may have been a good lawyer at one time years ago. But among other things, he was convicted of shoplifting from Kohl's and admitted he stole to sell the items to buy drugs, and was ordered to rehab.

Until recently, Freund practiced law in Riverside. A man who answered at a phone number listed for Freund’s law office on Thursday described Freund as an “independent contractor” but would not provide additional information and declined to give his name.

“He doesn’t work here no more,” according to the man, who said he last saw Freund a week ago.

His current practice as noted above sounds sketchy as he!!, note the grammar of the person who answered the phone where he was supposedly practicing.
Lawyer Andrew Freund - Riverside, IL Attorney - Avvo

 

[Trudie]

This may be a stupid question, AJ’s ears are very different in the haircut images. Why? Is it possible he was hearing impaired from head trauma & tugged or pulled at his ears, or she grabbed his ears as punishment?
His physical changes startle me, sorry.

 

[Whiteorchids]

Can someone who is good with photos put some side by side comparisons and post. The four haircut photos and the photos with his mom holding P and he’s dressed in the khaki pants and button down blue collared shirt where’s you can see the burn scars, marks and bald spots on his scalp. Maybe can zoom in on those. He looks kind of zombied out on those. Not focused. I think with all the head trauma beatings it caused some brain damage and he was not right from then on.