A 25-year-old La Crosse man has been charged in La Crosse County Circuit Court with hitting and choking a pregnant woman during a Dec. 6 altercation in La Crosse.
Jonathan M. Baum faces felony charges of strangulation/suffocation, false imprisonment and substantial battery with the intent to inflict bodily harm.
According to the criminal complaint, a woman told police she and Baum were together inside an apartment unit on Hood Street, when Baum became enraged that the woman was viewing a picture of an ex-boyfriend on her cell phone. She said Baum took the phone from her and refused to give it back.