Woman Whose Unborn Baby Was Cut From Her Body Speaks Out

A woman who had her unborn baby cut from her body in a disturbing attack by a stranger has spoken out about her torment.

Heavily pregnant Michelle Wilkins, of Colorado, arrived at the house of Dynel Catrece Lane, a mother to two teenage girls, after answering a Craigslist ad for maternity clothes. After going inside and receiving the clothes, Lane turned on the mother-to-be; beating her and stabbing her before tearing out her eight-month-old foetus; ending the unborn child’s life.

Opening up for the first time six months after her ordeal on Dr Phil, Wilkins said there are so many “what if’s” going through her head about that fateful day.

Wilkins described to the TV host how after receiving the maternity clothes, Lane asked her to see some baby clothes she said she didn’t need and shut the door behind her.

It was then that she was attacked.

“When she attacked me, she hit my back. It was very aggressive and hard, and I asked her, ‘Was there a spider on me?’ and she said, ‘Yeah, I think I got it’,” Wilkins recounted.

“And then she continued. I turned around pulled my hands up and said ‘What are you doing?’ And said, ‘I just want to leave, I don’t want to hurt you.

“I started walking toward the door, and she grabbed me very roughly, pushing me deeper into the house towards the bathroom. We jostled a little bit in the hallway as I tried to push my way back towards the door.

“She’s pushing me deeper into the house. Finally, we get all the way in front of the bathroom and she just lurches me sideways into the back bedroom. There are so many what if’s that go through your head.

“We struggle and she keeps telling me she’s that going to call the police on me. I pull out my phone and I said, ‘well I’ll call the police’ and that’s when the real struggle begins and she just throws me to the bed and tries to suffocate me with the pillow, with her hands and it had this nightmarish quality.

“She broke something over my head and I just felt the liquid wash over me, and I just kept saying, ‘Why, why are you doing this? Why?'” 

When Wilkins woke she managed to call 911 while she lay bleeding heavily in the basement of the home.

“She cut me in the stomach… I’m pregnant… I’m bleeding out,” she told the operator.

Wilkins was taken to the hospital where she underwent surgery. Unbeknownst to Wilkins, the woman who attacked her had put her baby in a bathtub and when the attacker’s husband arrived home told him she had miscarried. Wilkins’ husband Mr Ridley said he found the baby in the tub, turned it over and rubbed its back.

He heard the child take a ‘gasping breath’, he told police.

He then rushed the baby and his wife to the hospital.

Lane carried the dead baby wrapped in a towel into the hospital and told staff she miscarried.  She was covered in blood, but refused to be examined. She later admitted to police she had cut open another woman’s womb. Now six months later Wilkins tells of how she and her husband got to say goodbye to their baby girl.

“Dan and I thought she was the most beautiful thing we had ever seen,” she  told Dr Phil.

“And I was just so grateful to have her even for her short and small life. I think she was perfect.”

Lane pleaded not guilty to first-degree unlawful termination of pregnancy, attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault in July. She is set to go on trial early next year.

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