(Atlantic, Iowa) – A hearing in the case of an Anita woman facing 1st Degree Murder and Child Endangerment resulting in Death, charges, will now be held in April. The hearing in the case of Iowa vs. Alison Dorsey is was to have taken place Tuesday (March 22nd) in Atlantic, but it won’t take place now, until 10-a.m. April 19th.

Dorsey’s trial remains set for 9:30-a.m. June 20^th. A continuance in the hearing means uncertainty as to if her trial will be held once again in Atlantic, or in another county. A motion requesting a change of venue was filed by Cass County Attorney Vanessa Strazdus on Nov. 11, 2021.

Dorsey’s first trial ending in a mistrial on Nov. 4, 2021, after the jury deadlocked and failed to reach a verdict. The trial was with regard to the death of an infant that was in her care, in October of 2019.