(CNN) JoAnn Cunningham was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison for the 2019 murder of her 5-year-old son AJ Freund, whose body was found in a shallow grave in Illinois. Cunningham, 37, pleaded guilty in December to killing her son. Her sentence is set to begin immediately and will be served on its entirety without reductions other than time served. Upon her release from prison, she will serve an additional three years under supervised release and will be required to register as a violent offender against youth, a judge said Friday. "It was a horrible death preceded by a horrible life," McHenry County Judge Robert Wilbrandt said during the sentencing hearing on Friday.

Source: CNN July 17, 2020 20:36 UTC