(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – A District Court Judge has granted a request from an attorney for a Cass County woman, to continue her 1st Degree Murder and Child Endangerment trial until May 1, 2023. The trial for 39-year-old Alison Dorsey, of Anita, was set last June, to take place on Dec. 5th of this year, in Pottawattamie County District Court. The charges against Dorsey stem from the October 2019 death of an infant in her care, at a home daycare facility in Massena.

According to online court records, Dorsey’s pre-trial conference (PTC) will now take place March 24, 2023 with the jury trial beginning at 9:30-a.m., on May 1st. The trial remains to be held in Council Bluffs. Dorsey’s Cass County trial in the fall of 2021 ended after six-days, when the jury in her case deadlocked. A Judge declared a mistrial.