Saturday, March 28, 2009

Grandmother of Eddy Curry's son speaks at campaign event

This story is relevant for two reasons. Apparently a 6th Ward connection to the story of Eddy Curry's ex-girlfriend was found murdered in her apartment earlier this year. And the grandmother who refused at first to give up her grandson, Curry's son, is present at a political fundraiser:
The maternal grandmother spoke at a campaign kick-off event for Cook County Sheriff candidate Sylvester Baker, who is calling for creation of a domestic violence unit in the sheriff’s office, to be charged with enforcing orders of protection.

Henry’s daughter, Nova, who was killed along with her granddaughter, Ava, in January — allegedly by an abusive ex-boyfriend, Fredrick Goings — had let an order of protection against the man lapse.

“My daughter had filed an order of protection, but because of her fear, she never followed up on it...so [Goings] was allowed to carry a gun,” the mother said. “When you file a restraining order, there’s so much red tape, so many hoops you have to jump through, they often don’t follow it.”

Henry, wearing a sleeveless black dress and pearls, said she has filed an appeal of a judge’s order giving custody to Curry, father of Noah, as well as Ava. Henry said she will plead grandmother’s visitation rights, and will argue her daughter’s abusive attorney boyfriend coerced her to sign the agreement giving Curry full custody.

Referring to grandparents’ visitation rights, Henry said, “That’s all I’m entitled to (even though) I have raised my grandson since birth.”
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Neither she nor Baker had any criticism for Sheriff Tom Dart’s handling of her case. Baker instead focused on his proposal, charging that under the current system, orders of protection too often fall through the cracks.

Joining the two at the South Side Captain Hard Times restaurant were Ronald and Annette Holt, whose son Blair was shot to death on a CTA bus two years ago; and Willa Pitts, whose sons Kendrick and Carnell were killed this month.

Three years ago, Baker took about a quarter of the vote against Dart in the Democratic primary for sheriff.
I found this article thru EveryBlock that indicated an address where the actual article seemed to have deleted the address of Capt. Hard Times at 438 E. 79th Street.

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