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Elijah Vue’s mother, Katrina Baur, has reached a deal with prosecutors.

Elijah Vue’s mother, Katrina Baur, has reached a deal with prosecutors.

Posted on July 1, 2024, 1:12 AM

MANITOWOC, Wisc. (Scripps News Green Bay/Court TV) — The mother of missing baby Elijah Vue has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors to resolve the child neglect charges she faces.

Katrina Baur appears via video conference at a court hearing with her lawyer. (Court TV)

Katrina Baur has been charged with child neglect, not for Elijah’s disappearance but for allegedly abusing Elijah and his 6-year-old siblings. Baur reached a plea agreement with prosecutors on Monday, but details of the agreement were not disclosed. A guilty hearing is scheduled for July 18.

Baur has not been directly charged in Elijah’s disappearance. Baur’s partner, Jesse Vang, has pleaded not guilty to child neglect charges. Investigators say Elijah was in Vang’s care when he disappeared. At Vang’s preliminary hearing earlier this year, detectives testified that Baur brought Elijah to Vang’s home on Feb. 12, 2024, to help with behavioral issues through discipline and “punishment.”

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Investigators say the “punishment” used against Elijah included forcing him to pray standing for 2-3 hours and denying him bottles of milk.

Elijah was reported missing on Feb. 18, two days before he was due to return to Baur. Vang told police he went to sleep with Elijah in his room, but the child was gone when he woke up.

Vang is due in court again on September 27.