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Craigslist attack: Unborn child taken from pregnant woman | Craigslist attack: Unborn child taken from pregnant woman |
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Police in the US state of Colorado say a woman stabbed a pregnant mother in the stomach and took her unborn child. | |
The victim, who was seven months pregnant, is likely to survive following surgery, but the baby died. | The victim, who was seven months pregnant, is likely to survive following surgery, but the baby died. |
The pregnant woman was visiting the suspect's home to buy baby clothes that had been advertised on the online market website Craigslist. | |
The suspect, Dynel Catrece Lane, lost a 19-month-old child over a decade ago when he drowned in a small fish pond. | |
The 26-year-old expectant mother was responding to an online advertisement for baby clothes when the attack occurred on Wednesday. | |
"When she got into the house, she was attacked, she was beaten, and her baby was removed or cut out of her," Longmont Police Cdr Jeff Satur said. | |
The victim was able to make an emergency call, but was said to be barely conscious when officers arrived. | |
"She cut me," the woman says with a dazed-sounding voice in a recording of the emergency call. "I'm pregnant." | |
By the time officers arrived to assist the victim, Ms Lane had already left the scene. | |
Police say the 34-year-old suspect told her husband, David Ridley, that she had experienced a miscarriage. He rushed her and the baby to the hospital. | |
Ms Lane has two children of her own, and she and her husband had been trying for another. | |
She did not know the victim, police said. | She did not know the victim, police said. |
The Longmont Times-Call newspaper said the arrest report suggested that Ms Lane was pregnant herself, and she had admitted to cutting the baby out of the victim. | |
Police have arrested Ms Lane on suspicion of first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and child abuse knowingly and recklessly resulting in death. | |
The timing of the unborn child's death is complicating the process of filing charges against her. | |
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett is reportedly trying to determine if the child was still alive when it was removed from the womb. | |
"Under Colorado law, essentially no murder charges can be brought if the child did not live outside of the mother," the local paper quotes him as saying. | |
Mr Ridley told police that he saw and heard the baby take a "gasping breath", according to the arrest report reviewed by the Times-Call newspaper. | |
An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday. | |
The mother is said to be alert and responding to police questions. | |
Authorities are now looking for any other mothers who may have responded to the advertisement posted on Craigslist. |