WOODSTOCK, Ill.  — An autopsy determined that the boy whose body was found in a shallow grave in northern Illinois was that of Andrew “AJ” Freund and he died of blunt force trauma to his head and that he’d been struck multiple times.

The boy was reported missing last week and his body was discovered buried in a wooded area a few miles from the family’s Crystal Lake home on Wednesday.

His parents, 36-year-old Joann Cunningham and 60-year-old Andrew Freund Sr. have been charged with first-degree murder and other felony charges.  Their bail was set at $5 million each after prosecutors alleged that the couple had forced the little boy to stand for an extended period in a cold shower and beat him.

Prosecutors read charging documents that alleged the boy was killed three days before his parents reported him missing.

Child welfare workers had been called repeatedly to the dilapidated and filthy house that stunk of dog feces.

Details of the gruesome death raised the question: Why did those workers not leave with the boy?

Marc D. Smith, the new director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, will appear before lawmakers today.

Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, a Chicago Democrat who chairs the House Adoption and Child Welfare Committee said that the agency “has no direction, no mission and it certainly has not been protecting children”.