Testimony concluded Wednesday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother accused of strangling her three young children in a case that has drawn attention to postpartum mental health.
The director of the day care that the 8-year-old boy and his older sister attended last year says she told DCFS about her concerns.
A mother and her boyfriend are charged with murder and child endangerment in the death of her 8-year-old son, who appeared malnourished and had bruising on his body, in the north suburbs, police said.
The children's remains were discovered after the mother stopped paying rental fees for a storage unit. The locker's contents were auctioned and the buyers found the bodies inside.
The parents and grandmother of a boy who was found dead inside an ice-filled cooler in Southern California were charged with murder and torture.
A mother was charged with felony murder after her 9-year-old daughter was left in a hot car in July in Texas. She was arrested on Friday, according to law enforcement.