Boy Taken to Hospital After Alleged Belt Beating
Charges filed against Mokena woman after a boy came to school with bruises and welts to his face and back.
Bail was set at $25,000 on Thursday for a Mokena woman accused of beating a 10-year-old boy with a belt, sending him to the hospital later with bruises and welts on his face and back. Korie Kellogg, 30, of the 11200 block of Pin Oak Circle was charged with one count of aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony carrying a possible sentence of two to five years in jail. Prosecutors allege that on Tuesday, inside her home, Kellogg swung a belt at the boy between 15 and 20 times. The felony charge was filed after the boy told school teachers, when they asked about the marks on his body, that he had been “whooped," prosecutors said. He was later taken to the hospital to be examined. “That’s not an accurate story,” Kellogg said of the prosecutor's …
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1:48 am on Monday, July 30, 2012
what ever happened, whether its true or not true GOD is the judge not man. What is done in the dark sooner or later it will come out to the light. I believe whoopens are necessary to correct your child. BUT beating them til they are black and blue no matter what age is not acceptable. Personally beating your child makes them more rebellious. I have been beat with a belt before at the age of 20 by… more ›