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

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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