LA CROSSE — La Crosse County prosecutors are investigating a teenager who told police she starved her newborn daughter by refusing to breast-feed her.

The 19-year-old is being held on tentative charges of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse.

District attorney Tim Gruenke said Monday the woman gave birth last August but stopped feeding the girl after two days, knowing the infant would die. He says she put the girl’s body in a cooler and then put it out with the garbage this spring.

The child’s remains haven’t been recovered.

The woman is being held in the La Crosse County Jail on a $50,000 cash bond.