Ex-Wife Of Former Bull Curry Charged With Aggravated Battery Of Child

By Chuck Sudo in News on Apr 12, 2012 3:40PM

The ex-wife of former Chicago Bull and Thornwood High School basketball star Eddy Curry has been charged with aggravated battery of a child. Korrie M. Kellogg was arrested April 4 after Mokena police noticed welts and bruises on the face and body of the son she had with Curry. A hospital examination of the boy determined the welts and bruises were caused by a belt and the case was handed over to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Kellogg is free on $25,000 bail and had that bond modified Wednesday so that she could have supervised visits with her son. She's to be arraigned April 25 and her lawyer, former Will County State's Attorney Jeff Tomczak, said the incident was “strictly a case of proper parental discipline” and that Kellogg will "vehemently" fight the charges.

Kellogg and Curry married while both were students at Thornwood. Curry served Kellogg with divorce papers shortly after the Bulls selected him with the fourth pick in the 2001 NBA draft. A mother of one of Curry's other children, Nova Henry, was murdered in 2009. Frederick Goings, the attorney who represented Henry in her paternity battle with Curry over their son, was indicted in her murder and the killing of Henry's daughter Ava. A Curry family member alleges Henry's and Curry's son Noah implicated Goings in the killings.

Curry is in town tonight as a member of the Miami Heat, who will face the Bulls at the United Center.