Colorado woman gets 100 years for cutting baby from womb
From left: Defense attorneys Kathryn Herold and Jen Beck stood with Dynel Lane as the jury entered the courtroom before closing statements in Boulder, Colo., on Feb. 22. Lane was convicted of attempted murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy and four counts of felony assault. (Matthew Jonas/Daily Camera via AP)
BOULDER, Colo. » A judge sentenced a Colorado woman to 100 years in prison today for cutting a nearly 8-month-old fetus from a stranger’s womb.
A jury convicted Dynel Lane, 36, in February of attempting to kill Michelle Wilkins in 2015. Lane also was convicted of assault and unlawful termination of a pregnancy after luring Wilkins with an ad for maternity clothes.
Prosecutors said they were unable to charge Lane with murdering the unborn girl because a coroner found no evidence that the fetus lived outside the womb. That led Colorado Republicans to introduce legislation that would have allowed a murder charge. Democrats rejected the measure, the third time such a proposal failed in Colorado. Over the objection of abortion-rights supporters, 38 states have made a fetus’s killing a homicide.
Lane concocted elaborate lies to convince those close to her that she was pregnant, prosecutor said. She had posted online photos of herself with a distended belly and sent the man she said was the father of her child ultrasound images downloaded from the Internet.
David Ridley, who lived with Lane and her two daughters, testified at trial that Lane claimed for more than a year that she was expecting a boy, whom they planned to name James. Friends even threw a baby shower.
Ridley had grown suspicious by the time Lane lured Wilkins to her Longmont home. Wilkins testified that they chatted for about an hour before Lane hit, pushed and tried to choke her, then used two kitchen knives to cut the baby from her womb.
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When Ridley came home early from work that day to meet Lane for a doctor’s appointment, he said he found the fetus in a bathtub and drove the child and Lane to a hospital, where she begged staff to save her baby.
Lane said nothing to Ridley about Wilkins, who was unconscious at her home. Wilkins regained consciousness and called police.
In 2002, Lane’s 19-month-old son drowned in what investigators ruled was an accident.
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The sentence is a bit severe considering that Planned Parenthood continues to get one half BILLION dollars annually from the US government for killing babies while still in the womb.
Right. Planned Parenthood teaches their staff to hit, push and choke their clients, then take kitchen knives and cut into wombs to remove the fetus. They then leave the client there unconscious while they go about other business. They do not provide any counseling, birth control, health screenings, mammograms or other such services. They should sentence all Planned Parenthood staff to hundreds of years in jail, and do the same for all of those immoral men who mast urbate and kill off all of those sperm that should OLIY be used for procreation. What a horrible world we live in with so many murderers!
cholo detects a bit of sarcasm. could it be?
You are right, Btain, Planned Parenthood does not teach its staff to do those horrible things to their clients on whom they depend to get the half billion dollars annually from the US Government. They teach them to do those horrible things to unborn children in the wombs of their clients. They also teach them to crush the skulls of the unborn who do not cooperate and die while in the womb immediately upon being born and then dispose of the bodies as trash or sell them to researchers. Why is it that liberals have no problem with this?
At least now she’ll have plenty of time to contemplate what she did.
Really? You really should visit a Planned Parenthood clinic and see what really goes on there.
Please enlighten us.
She looks kinda like Alex Vause from that angle.