Tutor Charged with Child Abuse After 7-Year-Old Hospitalized with Head Trauma: Police

BALTIMORE, MD — An aide at a Baltimore City elementary school has been arrested after a 7-year-old boy sustained head trauma at school Monday, according to police.

Timothy Randall Korr, 25, of the 3200 block of Foster Avenue, has been charged with first and second-degree child abuse, first and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and neglect of a minor, police said.

Charges came after detectives reviewed evidence, including a video of Korr's encounter with the child at City Springs Elementary School in the 100 block of South Caroline Street.

Korr picked up the boy and slammed him against a wall until his body went limp, according to Baltimore Police Chief of Media Relations TJ Smith, who said the video was difficult to watch, particularly for parents in the agency. He said the child suffered broken bones as a result.

In the video, the boy was "manhandled like a sack of potatoes," Smith said, calling the behavior "despicable," "incomprehensible" and "disgusting."

Korr, a tutor for the Baltimore Curriculum Project, allegedly said he was carrying the child out of class for being disruptive when he lost his footing and hit a wall, according to Fox 45, which reported the child suffered a fractured jaw as a result.

The boy was brought to Johns Hopkins Children's Center Monday with major trauma to the head, and detectives were called to the hospital to investigate possible child abuse, Baltimore Police said.

Korr is currently at Central Booking waiting to see a court commissioner, police reported Wednesday afternoon.

According to WBAL, Korr has been terminated from his employment with the Baltimore Curriculum Project, a nonprofit that oversees operations at City Springs Elementary, a charter school in the Baltimore City Public Schools system; the child reportedly remained hospitalized.

PREVIOUS REPORT — A 7-year-old is hospitalized after he was injured at his Baltimore City elementary school in an incident that is reportedly under investigation by the Baltimore City Police Department.

Travon Grayson was being escorted to the office at City Springs Elementary/Middle School Monday afternoon when an assistant teacher allegedly threw him against a wall, causing facial swelling and tooth loss that will require surgery to correct, his parents told WBAL.

City Springs is a charter school, meaning it is a Baltimore City Public School overseen by an outside operator, in this case the nonprofit Baltimore Curriculum Project.

The assistant teacher, a tutor for the Baltimore Curriculum Project, allegedly claimed he lost his footing while taking Grayson out of class for being disruptive, according to Fox 45, which reported the child suffered a fractured jaw as a result.

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File photo. Booking photo of Timothy Korr courtesy of Baltimore Police.