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Dynel Catrece Lane ripped the unborn baby from her victim&#8217;s womb</h5>
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<h1 class="byline-time">&#8216;Craigslist attacker&#8217; who cut unborn baby from womb of pregnant woman jailed for 100 years</h1>
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<h2 class="">Dynel Catrece Lane, 35, was convicted of attempted murder following the attack on Michelle Wilkins, whose unborn baby daughter died</h2>
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<h2 class="">She cut victim&#8217;s baby in what was described as &#8216;a well performed operation&#8217; using a kitchen knife and broken glass</h2>
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<figure class="">Dynel Catrece Lane, 35, who was convicted of cutting a foetus from a stranger&#8217;s womb after luring her to her home with an online advert for free maternity clothes has been jailed for 100 years.<br />
She stabbed expectant mum Michelle Wilkins with a kitchen knife and ripped out her unborn baby in the gruesome attack in March last year.<br />
Wilkins, who was seven months pregnant , survived the stabbing at Lane&#8217;s home in Longmont, Colorado, but her baby daughter died.<br />
The trial which renewed discussion of whether termination of a pregnancy can ever be considered murder, saw Lane convicted of attempted murder, assault and unlawfully terminating a pregnancy in February following a trial in Boulder.<figcaption><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-20378" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/michelle-wilkins.jpg" alt="michelle-wilkins" width="615" height="410" /><em>Photo: <span class="image-credit">Michelle Wilkins/Facebook</span></em><br />
<strong>Mum-to-be: Michelle Wilkins proudly shows off her baby bump before the horrific attack</strong></figcaption></figure>
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<p>Boulder District Court Judge Maria Berkenkotter said the crime was brutal, shocking and cruel and ordered Lane to serve 100 years.<br />
Passing sentence, the judge said: &#8220;People are hungry to hear from Ms. Lane. Hungry to hear why you did this.&#8221;<br />
Prosecutors filed a charge of unlawful termination of a pregnancy, and not murder, against Lane after the Boulder County Coroner ruled the unborn child was a foetus rather than a baby because it had not taken a breath outside the womb.<br />
Wilkins, now 27, wiped away tears as the verdict was delivered earlier this year.<br />
&#8220;I do hope she finds the time to reflect on what she did,&#8221; Wilkins told reporters outside court.</p>
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Wilkins unborn baby girl died</strong></h5><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
<p>Prosecutors said Lane faked a pregnancy and then, after her husband became suspicious about whether she in fact was carrying a child, she took out an advertisement on the website Craigslist to lure a pregnant woman with an offer of maternity clothes.<br />
Wilkins testified that when she went to Lane&#8217;s home, responding to the advertisement, the older woman bludgeoned, stabbed and choked her until she passed out.<br />
Lane&#8217;s weapons included a lava lamp that she used to bash Wilkins on the head and two kitchen knives that she cut the fetus from the victim&#8217;s womb.<br />
When her husband returned home, Lane told him that she suffered a miscarriage and he rushed her to a hospital along with the dead foetus, police said.</p>
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<div class="video-gallery-container"> Wilkins, who was slipping in and out of consciousness, called 911 from the basement of the home where police later found her , clinging to life.</div>
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100 years for evil attacker who cut unborn baby from womb of pregnant woman
