Colorado woman who cut stranger's baby out of the womb given 100 years in prison

[davidn3600]

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 Wilkin’s 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

[HassleCat]

1. I think I see a movie on the horizon. (eom)

[Initech]

2. Or a new season of Dexter.

[malaise]

3. No sane woman could commit such an act

Sad all around.

[davidn3600]

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]

4. With good behavior,

she can be out in 85 years.

[Warren DeMontague]

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