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Ex-Illinois state worker pleads not guilty in slain boy case

| September 17, 2020 9:27 AM

One of two former Illinois child welfare workers who investigated abuse allegations involving a 5-year-old boy whose beaten body was found in a shallow grave last year pleaded not guilty Thursday to child endangerment and reckless conduct charges.

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