The case sparked a debate in Colorado over the legal status of a fetus after Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett opted against murder charges against Lane, saying the coroner had found no evidence that the baby lived outside the womb, AP reported.
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“No, I do not hate Dynel”, Wilkins said outside the courtroom following the verdict.
Michelle Wilkins reacts as she testifies in a Boulder District…
A Colorado woman is facing the next century in prison after being convicted on half a dozen criminal counts stemming from her actions in cutting an unborn baby, who shortly later died, from her mother.
Defense attorneys had argued the attack was made impulsively and that it wasn’t planned, and that she should be held accountable for reckless manslaughter and not attempted murder.
In March 2015, Wilkins went to the house in Longmont, Colo., after seeing a Craigslist ad offering free maternity clothes.
Lane will be sentenced on April 29. Lane, 35, beat and stabbed Wilkins, 27, and then used a kitchen knife to cut her open.
“Many have asked me how I feel about Dynel Lane”, Wilkins said in a prepared statement, according to ABC 7 in Denver.
AP reported Lane had tried to convince her friends she was pregnant.
“I do hope she finds the time to reflect on what she did”, Ms Wilkins told reporters outside court. She chose the word triumphant to describe how justice was served with guilty verdicts at the end of her attacker’s trial.
“I think it’s probably a fear of any child whose lost a child that they will forget and that they won’t think of them daily”, Wilkins said.
Wade – who had been telling people in the NY neighbourhood that she was pregnant – allegedly gashed Ms Sutton across the neck just inside the home’s faux-stone entrance, sources said. Yet, Wilkins said, Lane hit her again and a chaotic physical altercation ensued.
Dynel Lane sits after the jury announces a guilty verdict in her trial Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 in Boulder, Colo.
“She told David she just miscarried and the baby was in the bathtub upstairs”, the police report said.
She also recalled Lane smashing a glass bottle over her head, covering her face and chest in a wet substance that mixed with her own blood.
“I may never get any real answers from her, I will never get an explanation from her but what I’ve come to realize is that I don’t want to get that”, said Wilkins.
In tearful testimony, Wilkins recounted the attack last week. “I felt like I was being thoughtful, you know, and listening to her and being kind to her. But eventually I said, ‘I really have to go'”.
Though she was bleeding and stunned in a stranger’s basement, Wilkins, who was 26 at the time, managed to lock herself in a room and call 911, and she did what she could to stem the bleeding.
“And when you do that in this case, the only conclusion you can reach is that for whatever reason, for whatever thought or goal she had … for whatever plan she had – and it wasn’t a good plan – she intentionally, deliberately cut Michelle Wilkins to take and to kill her baby”.
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When her husband returned home, Lane told him she had suffered a miscarriage and he rushed her to a hospital along with the deceased foetus.
