ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A woman who reported her baby missing is accused of orchestrating the

March 2, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A woman who reported her baby missing is accused of orchestrating the disappearance, which triggered Alaska’s first fully initiated Amber Alert.

Elisa LaCroix, 20, is charged with making a false abduction report. In January, she was charged with falsely accusing an ex-boyfriend of raping her close to her due date.

LaCroix was out on bail on the earlier case when she was arrested Sunday after 3-week-old Ethan LaCroix was found unharmed at Fort Richardson in the custody of Amelia Cameron.

No charges are planned against Cameron, who told police she didn’t know her friend would file a false report.

LaCroix claimed she put Ethan in his crib near an unlocked window Saturday night, but police Lt. Dave Parker said she actually handed him to Cameron through the window.

Ethan’s father, Kaid LaCroix, checked on the baby an hour later and discovered he was gone.

The couple are divorcing, and Elisa LaCroix feared her estranged husband — a soldier based at Fort Richardson — would take the baby before his pending deployment, Parker said.Parker said LaCroix intended to hide her son with her friend until her husband’s deployment.

Elisa LaCroix was terrified her husband would follow through with threats to take away Ethan and that she would never see the baby again, said her attorney, Rex Butler. He said his client has been on house arrest, wearing an ankle monitor, and wanted to put her child in a safe environment until her husband left the state.