⁍ JoAnn Cunningham was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for the 2019 murder of her 5-year-old son AJ Freund.
⁍ Cunningham, 37, pleaded guilty in December to killing her son.
⁍ AJ’s body was found wrapped in plastic in the grave on April 24, 2019, about 10 miles away from the family’s home in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

– JoAnn Cunningham was on Friday sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of her 5-year-old son. The Chicago Tribune reports the 37-year-old Crystal Lake, Ill., woman pleaded guilty in December to first-degree murder in the April 2019 death of AJ Freund. The body of the boy, whose cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, was found in a shallow grave 10 miles from the family’s home in Crystal Lake on April 24. Cunningham reported AJ missing on April 18, saying he was in his bed the night before, but gone the next morning. The dayslong search gained interest nationwide. The boy probably died days earlier, on April 15, authorities have said. McHenry County Judge Robert Wilbrandt said Friday there was “no finding that Ms. Cunningham intended to kill her son and no finding that she committed the type of wanton cruelty that could have resulted in a sentence of imprisonment for natural life.” Per CNN, Cunningham and AJ’s father, Andrew Freund Sr., reported AJ missing on April 18, saying he was in his bed the night before, but gone the next morning. A days-long search gained interest nationwide. Freund Sr. confessed to killing his son in a video he recorded on his phone. Cunningham’s

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