Indra Book

[delaineyrae]

A LaCrosse woman whose newborn starved to death and was place in the trash. So far, all the courts have done is let her out of jail and then take her back, while deciding if she can leave on a property bond.
Her fellow employees never knew she was pregnant, and aparently neither did her family. She gave birth at home and claims to have tried breast feeding right away, but the baby didnt take to it. So since it didnt work the first time, she gave up and after her baby died she placed the body in a styrofoam cooler and put it outside. Then months later a friend of hers found it and placed it in the trash. The body has never been found.

Was it so hard for her to go an entire pregnancy and not say a peep about what was going on? Does that look like intent to anyone else? She could have dropped the baby off at any hospital or fire station, etc., but instead did nothing. And has she never heard of WIC? They would have helped her out right away. I just think there was a world of opportunity for her, but instead she lost her own life along with her baby's.

[delaineyrae]

Man pleads guilty in infant death case
By ANNE JUNGEN | ajungen@lacrossetribune.com


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A La Crosse man admitted Monday he lied to authorities investigating his close friend and former roommate now accused of homicide in the death of her infant daughter.

Adam O’Connor, 21, of 509 S. 23rd St., pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing an officer and had sentencing suspended as he entered into a diversion agreement in La Crosse County Circuit Court.
The misdemeanor charge filed against him July 29 will be dismissed in one year if he avoids further criminal charges, performs 30 hours of community service, undergoes counseling and writes an apology to the investigators.

“Believe me, you do not want to be back for sentencing on this,” La Crosse County Circuit Judge Dale Pasell warned O’Connor.

La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke offered the agreement based on O’Connor’s lack of criminal record and cooperation with police in the ongoing case against Indra Book.

Authorities said O’Connor lied during the early stages of the investigation into Book, 20, who is accused of letting her daughter die Aug. 17, 2007, soon after giving birth at home.

Prosecutors said Book failed to provide proper care, including feedings, to the newborn, knowing the infant would die without nourishment. Book then hid the body in a plastic cooler and put the container between two garages outside a Sixth Street residence she shared with O’Connor, according to the criminal complaint.

O’Connor admitted seeing an infant’s body inside the cooler when it was inside the garage, about one or two weeks after Book gave birth, but denied knowing how the cooler disappeared.

He was charged after admitting he moved the cooler closer to a garbage pile in March so it would be taken during trash collection. The cooler has not been found.

O’Connor also initially told police he did not know where Book was, believing it “was his job to protect her,” according to the criminal complaint.

O’Connor was not charged with party to the crime of hiding a corpse, as there was no evidence the cooler still contained the infant’s body when he moved it, Gruenke said.

Book was charged July 18 with first-degree intentional homicide � though her attorney has argued that facts of the case do not constitute criminal intent � and hiding a corpse. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has a status conference set for Dec. 11.

[RaVeN71806]

Now these people our just pure stupid, selfish, careless people...the whole story is BS.....she didn't want that poor baby in the first place..all she had to do is take it a hospital or any safe haven place...