Babysitter's two pit bulls mauled 14-month-old boy to death

WISCONSIN -- A Wisconsin family was left reeling from the tragic death of their 14-month-old son who was mauled to death by his babysitter's two pit bulls Tuesday.

The child, identified as Dax Borchardt, died nearly three hours after the attack while in the care of 30-year-old Susan Iwicki.

Iwicki was also injured in the attack at her house in Walworth when her pets lost control and lunged at the child.

Walworth County Sheriff's department said they received a 911 call from Ms Iwicki's home at N2037 North Lakeshore Drive at 12.46pm Tuesday to say she and the boy were being attacked by the pit bulls.

The toddler was taken to Mercy-Walworth Medical Center before being airlifted to the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin where he died from critical injuries at about 3:30pm.

The dogs were removed from the house and euthanized by a local veterinarian. It is unclear at this point if Iwicki will face any charges in connection to the boy's death.

Walworth County Sheriff's Office Captain Dana Nigbor told GazetteXtra.com that 'unless something drastically changes,' the investigation likely will not be a criminal one.

An autopsy is expected to be perfomed on little Dax sometime today.

Friends of the boy's family told WISN 12 News how his parents had spent a long time trying to conceive a baby.

"[He had the] biggest eyes, great smile,' family friend Valerie Brylow told WTMJ. 'He was a great little boy.'

Dax's parents have been identified by MailOnline as Kimbelry Sucharski Borchardt and Jeff Borchardt, a local DJ who goes by the stage name Mix Master Bogart.

Last night, the boy's dad posted a heart-breaking and angry message on his Facebook page, vowing to do everything in his power to make sure that the pit bull breed is 'bred out.'

In his tirade, Mr Borchardt insisted that Iwicki's pets were not abused or mistreated, claiming that 'they are naturally wired...to bite down on flesh and lot let go.'

'I always thought my little chiuawawa [sic] would be MURDERED by a pitbull,' he wrote. 'I never thought it would be our baby boy....I will have that picture seared in my head forever.'

Two hours later, Borchardt took to the social media site again, posting an unsettling message conveying that he wished to have died instead of his son.

'Please god, just take my life and give it to Dax....it shoudve [sic] been me,' the post read. 'I'm a complete waste of a human being and this is gods [sic] way of paying me back!'

Friends and sympathetic strangers alike responded by offering their support and urging the heartbroken husband and father not to give up for the sake of his wife.

'Be strong and carry on....its [sic] a loss that never heals, but each day makes the burden lighter,' Keeth Furan wrote on Facebook.

Another friend of the father, Nicole Jennison, told WISN 12: 'When he was with his kid, it was just all smiles.

'He didn’t care about anything else in the world, and now this happened. It breaks my heart.'

(Daily Mail UK - March 7, 2013)