Child-welfare agency probing boy's fatal hanging

Child welfare officials say they're investigating neglect allegations against a suburban Chicago school where a 10-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself in a bathroom.

Illinois Department of Children and Family Services spokesman Kendall Marlowe says someone phoned in a complaint against Oakton Elementary in Evanston.

That's where fifth-grader Aquan Lewis was found hanging from a hook in a bathroom stall on Tuesday. He was pronounced dead the next morning at a Chicago hospital and medical examiners ruled it a suicide.

Marlowe says the investigation should be finished within 60 days.

Officials at the school haven't returned a call seeking comment.

The boy's mother has said she doesn't believe he killed himself. A lawyer for the family says he wants to know why the boy was alone so long that he died.