3-year-old missing nearly a week as mom faces child neglect charge

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Elijah Vue is still missing nearly a week after he disappeared from a home in Two Rivers, Wisc. As police and volunteer search efforts continue, Vue’s mother faces a criminal charge that she was party to child neglect and allegedly sent the three-year-old to stay with a man for “disciplinary reasons.”Vue is described as being ethnically white and Hmong, an ethnic minority group that hails from southern China and northern Southeast Asia.

He has sandy hair, brown eyes, stands about three feet tall and has a birthmark on his left knee, according to an active Amber Alert.He was last seen wearing grey sweatpants, a long-sleeved shirt and red-and-green dinosaur shoes. He may be possibly carrying a red-and-white plaid blanket.Two Rivers is about 350 kilometres southwest of Sault Ste.

Marie, Ont.The three-year-old was reported missing on Feb. 20 by a 911 caller who identified themselves as his “adult caretaker,” and stated that Vue was last seen around 8 a.m.

that day, the Two Rivers Police Department wrote in a release. Police immediately initiated a search and an Amber Alert went out that same day.Six days later, Vue still has not been located.The FBI, Wisconsin criminal investigators and the local Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department are all assisting and the city’s manager thanked the efforts of “hundreds of local residents who have taken to the sidewalks, streets, fields, and forests around Two Rivers,” in search of Vue.On Thursday, Two Rivers police announced that Vue’s mother, Katrina Baur, and a man named Jesse Vang had been arrested “on an allegation of child neglect.” Vang is allegedly the man who was taking care of Vue at the time of his disappearance.Baur and Vang appeared in court via video conference from jail on