The boy’s mother, Joan, was sentenced for beating her 5-year-old son to death before burying him in a shallow grave and reporting him missing. According to prosecutors, the boy, only identified as AJ, died alone in the dark two weeks later, his head prominently marked by the outline of the shower head Joan beat him with as he stood under the freezing shower. He was supposedly being punished for soiling himself. Pleading for mercy, Joan told the judge: “I had the privilege of having AJ as my son. I loved him, I miss him.” Her words were a stark contrast to the…