The mom of 3-year-old Elijah Vue is reacting from jail after the kid’s stays had been discovered a number of months after the boy’s disappearance.
Elijah’s mom, Katrina Baur, was arrested alongside her boyfriend on youngster neglect prices after the kid went lacking, PEOPLE reported on the time, citing a press release from the Two Rivers Police Division in Wisconsin.
On Sep. 7, police in Two Rivers discovered human stays solely miles from the place the kid went lacking, the department said at a press briefing on Sep. 10. The stays had been positively recognized to be of Elijah’s, the division stated.
Days after the lacking boy’s cranium and bones had been discovered, Baur, 31, who in response to prosecutors’ assertions in court docket sent the boy to her boyfriend as punishment proper earlier than his disappearance, reacted via her lawyer.
“Katrina Baur is devastated by the newest information, figuring out the stays discovered as Elijah,” Baur’s lawyer, Amber Gratz, stated in a press release to WFRV Local 5, FOX 11 and NBC 26.
“She had continued to have hope that her little boy can be discovered alive,” Gratz stated within the assertion. “Right now, she is mourning the lack of her son.”
Elijah was last seen round 8 a.m. on Feb. 20 at his house in Two Rivers, investigators beforehand stated. He was reported lacking by his mom’s boyfriend, 39-year-old Jesse Vang, who referred to as 911 to report he could not discover Elijah, PEOPLE beforehand reported, citing a prison grievance obtained by FOX 11.
Two days after Elijah was reported lacking, police introduced that the boy’s mom had been arrested on a charge of child neglect.
Vang, who lived on the identical handle the place Elijah was final seen, was additionally arrested on a cost of kid neglect, Manitowoc County’s on-line court docket data present. (Neither has been charged in reference to Elijah’s disappearance or demise).
In February, prosecutors alleged in court docket that Baur despatched Elijah to Vang for “disciplinary” functions proper earlier than the kid went lacking, Fox 11, NBC 26 and CBS 58 reported on the time.
“She deliberately despatched that youngster for disciplinary causes for greater than every week to the residence,” Manitowoc District Lawyer Jacalyn LaBre stated in court docket, per NBC 26 and CBS 58. “She was conscious of the techniques used and the shortage of care offered. This was an intentional factor by her.”
Vang allegedly informed authorities that he was serving to Baur “appropriate” the kid’s “dangerous behaviors,” the prison grievance acknowledged. Previous to the disappearance, Vang allegedly expressed his anger to Baur, claiming Elijah had “overfilled” his diaper, per the grievance.
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Vang allegedly informed police that Elijah disappeared from his room whereas he was asleep, the grievance additional acknowledged.
Each Baur and Vang have entered pleas of not responsible for his or her prices, Manitowoc County’s on-line court docket data present.
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