FILE – Former Illinois Department of Children and Family Services employee Carlos Acosta appears in court inside Judge Robert Wilbrandt’s courtroom at the McHenry County Courthouse, Sept. 24, 2020, in Woodstock, Ill. A judge sentenced the former Illinois state child welfare worker to six months in jail Thursday, June 6, 2024, in connection with a 5-year-old boy’s death. (Matthew Apgar/Northwest Herald via AP, Pool, File)