Elijah Vue lacking replace: Missing toddler’s blanket discovered weeks after his disappearance | EUROtoday

Katrina Baur, 31, is due again in courtroom in the present day (Friday) for her arraignment listening to on expenses of power baby neglect and obstruction.

The listening to is scheduled for 4pm native time on the Manitowoc County Courthouse with Judge Robert Dewane.

Ms Baur is charged with power neglect of a kid, neglecting a toddler and two counts of restriting or obstructing an officer.

At a earlier listening to, the courtroom heard an announcement from Ms Baur’s mom, Jodi Baur, who requested the courtroom to not honour a request to decrease the suspect’s bond of $15,000.

“At this time, rather than aligning in locating her son, she feels the need to reiterate what a good guy Jesse is and is fully defending him and his actions,” Jodi Baur mentioned.

The grandmother alleged that by aligning herself with Mr Vang’s household, her daughter had potential entry to his prolonged household and so they may assist her flee the world.

The grandmother mentioned Ms Baur had minimize ties together with her household in October 2022 and that she had a historical past of erratic behaviour.

“I don’t feel it’s worth the risk to lower her bond, especially as [Elijah] has not been found and many questions remain unanswered,” the assertion continued.

Earlier this week, Two Rivers Police Department mentioned it had positively recognized a blanket discovered earlier in its investigation as belonging to Elijah.

The replace, posted on Monday, was the final actual replace on the seek for the 3-year-old.

When the preliminary lacking individuals report was issued, the plaid blanket was highlighted as an object Elijah may need been carrying.

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Elijah Vue’s mom Katrina Baur despatched him to stick with Jesse Vang on 12 February, in order that he may educate the little boy the best way to “be a man”.

While he stayed with Mr Vang, Elijah was subjected to time-outs lasting between one and three hours, the place he needed to stay standing.

At occasions he was informed to wish, or to repeatedly say “sorry mommy”, in keeping with statements given to police by Mr Vang.

On the morning he disappeared, Elijah had been informed by Mr Vang to face on the foot of his mattress whereas the person took a nap at round 8am. When Mr Vang wakened, Elijah was gone and he has not been seen since.

Earlier in March, Two Rivers Police Department issued a plea for assist in piecing collectively the actions of a car related with the case.

TRPD launched photos of the beige 1997 Nissan Altima, saying it wished assist in figuring out the automotive’s path the day earlier than Elijah was reported lacking.

Since then, the car has not been talked about by the division in its updates on Facebook.

Elijah disappeared from Jesse Vang’s house in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

The small city sits on the shore of Lake Michigan, with the closest metropolis being Manitowoc.

The little boy was staying round 150 miles from his house in Wisconsin Dells, making it round a 2.5 hour drive away.

Two Rivers is house to round 11,000 folks and its police division has been main the seek for Elijah.

An up to date prison criticism on Wednesday gave us new particulars on messages between Katrina Baur and Jesse Vang, the place they mentioned disciplining Elijah.

“I told you to trust me… I’m a make sure he hates me and being here,” Mr Vang reportedly informed the mom on 18 February.

She responded: “Don’t want him to *hate* YOU. Just fear you.”

However, Mr Vang reportedly informed Ms Baur to not fear and mentioned that somebody “had to be the bad person” within the state of affairs.

“I know but either way he can fear you and respect you,” Ms Baur replied, with Mr Vang responding that Elijah did worry him, “but he didn’t respect me… now I’m making him respect me.”

Their messages additionally included photographs of Elijah with bruising on his face and sporting a blindfold, in addition to standing in a nook in a full diaper, his palms in a praying place.

Reports in native media have outlined an obvious relationship between Katrina Baur and Jesse Vang courting again to late-2015.

WBAY experiences of a “troubled past” for Mr Vang, Elijah’s mom Katrina Baur and the boy’s organic father Jimmy Vue.

Court paperwork state that in November 2015 police had been known as out to a lodge in Appleton, Outagamie County. When they arrived, they discovered Ms Baur hiding within the lavatory after she received the lodge workers to name 911.

She then informed officers that she had been sexually assaulted by two males, one in every of whom was Mr Vang.

Ms Baur then informed officers that she was “their property” and she or he had been taken to Minnesota to carry out sexual acts in change for compensation, which included medicine.

Charges of human trafficking had been later dropped, NBC 26 reported.

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The seek for Elijah Vue handed one month on Wednesday, with regulation enforcement and volunteers persevering with to search for him.

Here is a timeline of occasions to date:

The final replace on the search from Two Rivers Police Department got here on Monday 18 March.

The division urged these attempting to assist discover Elijah to be “respectful of private property” after some experiences of people trespassing on personal land.

“Law Enforcement has already thoroughly searched many areas of interest on private land with the permission of property owners,” the put up learn. “Please continue to search your own properties if you haven’t done so and encourage others to do the same.”

Jesse Vang, a pal of Elijah Vue’s mom, was the final individual to see the three-year-old alive.

Elijah’s mom, Katrina Baur, despatched her son to Mr Vang’s house on 12 February. What allegedly adopted was a sequence of “disciplinary” ways to handle what Ms Baur felt was Elijah’s dangerous behaviour, together with prolonged time-outs and necessities to wish or repeatedly say he was “sorry mommy”.

Mr Vang reported Elijah lacking on 20 February. He informed police he had taken a nap that morning, and when he wakened, the three-year-old was gone.