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The grandmother of a lacking Wisconsin toddler begged a court docket to maintain the boy’s mom — her daughter — locked behind bars, citing her “historical past of erratic conduct.”
The determined plea was delivered Thursday throughout a preliminary listening to for Katrina Baur, 31, who faces persistent little one neglect prices in connection to 3-year-old Elijah Vue’s disappearance.
The boy vanished Feb. 20 after Baur despatched him to the house of boyfriend Jesse Vang, who can also be charged within the case, for “disciplinary causes,” in response to court docket paperwork.
In an announcement learn on the listening to, Jodi Baur requested that the court docket reject her daughter’s request to decrease her $15,000 bond.
“I’ve identified Katrina Baur longer than anybody else as I’m her mom,” mentioned the assertion, learn aloud by District Attorney Jacalyn LaBre.
“Katrina has struggled with melancholy and nervousness for a few years, has a historical past of erratic conduct. She has been affected by traumatic mind damage and is extremely more likely to neglect necessary appearances.”
“I don’t really feel it’s well worth the threat to decrease her bond, particularly as a sufferer has not been discovered and plenty of questions haven’t been answered. She does should be held accountable for what guidelines out sooner or later and I really feel releasing her she can be a flight threat.”
Jodi Baur additionally revealed that her daughter lower ties together with her household in October 2022 following years of risky conduct.
Jodi Baur claims she was a sufferer of Katrina Baur, who allegedly unleashed “verbal and emotional abuse” for years earlier than their relationship dissolved.
The mistreatment was extreme sufficient for Jodi Baur to ask that the court docket difficulty a no-contact order to Katrina Baur ought to she be launched on bail.
The judge within the case, nevertheless, declined Katrina Baur’s plea to have her bond decreased — stating that the $15,000 money quantity was set “proper the place it must be.”
Katrina Baur was arrested on Feb. 21, the day after Vang, 39, reported Elijah lacking.
He informed police he had been taking a nap within the morning with Elijah within the bed room, however awoke three hours later to search out the boy gone.
Elijah had been staying at Vang’s Two Rivers residence since Katrina Baur dropped him off on Feb. 12 so Vang might educate the boy “to be a person,” the mom informed police, in response to a prison grievance.
Katrina Baur — who was planning on selecting up Elijah on Feb. 23 — was about 30 miles away when he vanished.
She was initially charged with little one neglect, which has since been amended to persistent little one neglect.
She additionally faces two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing an officer.
Vang was charged with one felony depend of party-to-a-crime little one neglect and is being held on a $20,000 money bond.
Investigators are nonetheless on the hunt for little Elijah, who’s 3 toes tall, has darkish blond hair and brown eyes, and weighs about 45 kilos.
He additionally has a birthmark on his left knee.
A Manitowoc County Crime Stoppers reward for data resulting in the situation and return of Elijah or the arrest and conviction of these liable for his disappearance has risen to as a lot as $10,000, Two Rivers Police Chief Ben Meinnert mentioned in a information launch.
The Crime Stoppers reward is along with an FBI reward of as much as $15,000 within the case.
