How Could You? Hall of Shame-Erica Dorsch UPDATED

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Madison, Wisconsin, “police have arrested a Madison woman related to serious injuries to her three-year-old foster son.

The child was in critical condition Friday night in a pediatric intensive care unit. Officers responded to the …on  Friday morning to a call from the child’s foster parents, saying he had suffered a serious head injury.

Police say they are still investigating how the boy was injured, but they have arrested Erica Dorsch, 31, for suspected physical abuse of the child. ”

Madison woman arrested, suspected of abusing foster child[WKOW 1/27/17]

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Update: “The woman accused of slamming a toddler in her care to the floor, causing a serious head injury, has pleaded guilty in Dane County Court Friday.

Erica Dorsch, 31, of Madison, pleaded guilty to the charge of felony child abuse including intentionally causing harm to her 3-year-old foster son.

Police said officers responded on the morning of Jan. 27 to the…on a report that a boy had suffered a serious head injury. He was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

According to the criminal complaint, Dorsch told police she became angry in the bathroom when she believed the boy lied about washing his face. She said she threw a book at him, hitting his head, then yanked him off the toilet, pushing him to the floor as hard as she could multiple times.

She told police the boy yelled when his head hit the floor, his back arched, his eyes fluttered and he became unresponsive. She said he vomited and had stopped breathing.

A sentencing hearing was not yet scheduled Friday, according to court records.”

 

[Channel 3000 7/14/17]

Update 2:“A Madison woman who admitted slamming a foster child’s head against a bathroom floor nearly a half dozen times before the 3-year old boy became unresponsive was sentenced to twelve months in jail Tuesday as part of an eight year probation sentence.

Erica Dorsch, 31, pleaded guilty in July, 2017.

Dorsch was disciplining the boy and she told investigators she hit him in the head with a paperback book, according to the criminal complaint. Dorsch then “…slammed him into the floor…maybe five times, but not as many as ten times,” according to a criminal complaint.

“I don’t know what snapped in me,” Dorsch told investigators. Court records indicate Dorsch was disciplining the child over lying about washing his face.

Court records say the child had been placed in Dorsch’s care by the Dane County Department of Human Services.

An attorney representing the three year old child victim testified Tuesday the boy considered Dorsch a mother figure. She says the boy has received extensive therapy in the wake of the abuse, and continues to experience night terrors.

Dorsch has no other criminal record.

Dorsch’s attorney says previously undiagnosed mental health conditions contributed to Dorsch’s actions.

“I know there is always more work to be done,” Dorsch told the judge. “But I feel like a different person than I was then. Different than the person I have been my entire life. So many things have chnaged [sic]about the way I think, the way I feel, how I understand myself.””

Woman sentenced in foster child case

[Wkow 09/5/17]