Father of AJ Freund sentenced

Katie Monday, September 21, 2020

Friday, September 18 the 61-year-old father of AJ Freund appeared in court and pleaded guilty to three charges as a part of a plea deal.

Freund was sentenced to 11 years for aggravated battery of a child, 14 years for involuntary manslaughter, and an additional five years for concealment of a homicide. Judge Robert Wilbrandt ordered that the sentences be served consecutively "for the protection of the public."

As a part of the plea deal, he will receive credit for the time he has served since his arrest in April 2019, and he must cooperate with the investigation into the Department of Children and Family Services.

Freund must serve a minimum of 18 years in prison. If he is released, he will be subject to a period of supervised release and will be listed on the state's registry for violent offenders against youths.

AJ's mother, JoAnn Cunningham was sentenced in July to 35 years after she had pleaded guilty in December to a single charge of First Degree Murder.

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Katie

Teaching children from before they can walk that people are ‘inherently good’ is not only dangerous, but it also contradicts Biblical truth (Jer. 17:9, Romans 8, etc).

I don’t like writing stories about parents inflicting atrocities on their own children, but if we continue as a society to refuse to acknowledge that these things happen and that they are not nearly as uncommon as we would like to think, then we’ll never move to the next step of recognizing the reality of ritual abuse, and doing something about it.

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