Colorado woman convicted of cutting fetus from stranger's womb

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado jury on Tuesday convicted a woman of attempted murder and assault for stabbing a pregnant stranger and cutting her fetus from her womb, after luring the victim to her home with an online advertisement for free maternity clothes.

Dynel Catrece Lane, 35, was also found guilty in a Boulder courtroom of a charge of unlawfully terminating a pregnancy stemming from the March 2015 attack on Michelle Wilkins, 27.

Wilkins, who was seven months pregnant, survived the stabbing at Lane's home in Longmont, 30 miles (56 km) north of Denver, but Wilkins' unborn baby girl died.

The case renewed discussion of whether termination of a pregnancy can ever be considered murder. 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 fetus rather than a baby because it had not taken a breath outside the womb.

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[LiberalElite]

1. I cannot fathom what the mindset could be

of a woman who would do this to another woman.

[Archae]

2. Purely desperate.

Has lied about being pregnant so they want a baby, no matter how they get it.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Very 'impurely' desperate. Pedantic, I know, but there are no mitigating circs, just explanations.

- of sorts.

[Massacure]

3. It's amazing that the would-have-been mother survived

I cannot imagine what kind of shape should would have been in following an attack like that.