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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsColorado woman who cut stranger's baby out of the womb given 100 years in prison
A Colorado woman has been sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison for attempted murder after cutting a seven-month-old foetus from the womb of an expectant mother.
Dynel Lane was found guilty by a jury for trying to kill Michelle Wilkins in March 2015 in the Denver suburb of Longmont and was also convicted of the unlawful termination of a pregnancy. The baby, later named Aurora, did not survive the attack.
Judge Maria Berkenkotter said the sentence was justified by the brutality of the attack, which she described as performing a caesarean with a kitchen knife.
Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentence of 188 years.
Lane faked a pregnancy for months before luring Ms Wilkins, 28, to her apartment by creating a Craigslist ad for maternity clothes.
Lane hit Ms Wilkins over the head with a lava lamp and stabbed her in the neck with the broken glass. She then cut Ms Wilkins abdomen, removed the unborn baby and left the victim for dead
Dynel Lane was found guilty by a jury for trying to kill Michelle Wilkins in March 2015 in the Denver suburb of Longmont and was also convicted of the unlawful termination of a pregnancy. The baby, later named Aurora, did not survive the attack.
Judge Maria Berkenkotter said the sentence was justified by the brutality of the attack, which she described as performing a caesarean with a kitchen knife.
Prosecutors had asked for the maximum sentence of 188 years.
Lane faked a pregnancy for months before luring Ms Wilkins, 28, to her apartment by creating a Craigslist ad for maternity clothes.
Lane hit Ms Wilkins over the head with a lava lamp and stabbed her in the neck with the broken glass. She then cut Ms Wilkins abdomen, removed the unborn baby and left the victim for dead
http://www.independent.co.uk/us/colorado-woman-dynel-lane-jailed-for-100-years-for-cutting-baby-from-pregnant-strangers-womb-a7007836.html
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Colorado woman who cut stranger's baby out of the womb given 100 years in prison (Original Post)
davidn3600
May 2016
OP
These stories are tragically ... not common, but they happen with enough similarity that
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#5
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)1. I think I see a movie on the horizon. (eom)
Initech
(100,108 posts)2. Or a new season of Dexter.
malaise
(269,219 posts)3. No sane woman could commit such an act
Sad all around.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)6. Apparently she lost her 19-month old in a drowning some years ago
That was ruled an accident.
But perhaps that loss is what sparked a mental illness.
cloudbase
(5,525 posts)4. With good behavior,
she can be out in 85 years.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. These stories are tragically ... not common, but they happen with enough similarity that
there is a clear specific psychological disorder going on, obviously.
There was a practically identical story out here, a few years ago.
http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2010/10/korena_roberts_pleads.html