Woman charged with cutting fetus from stranger’s womb pleads not guilty to

Dynel Lane, accused of attacking Michelle Wilkins and cutting the Longmont woman’s unborn child from her womb, is scheduled to be arraigned on attempted-murder charges in Boulder District Court on Thursday morning.

Lane’s story unraveled after staff there became suspicious when she refused an examination, and she ultimately admitted to a detective that she had attacked Wilkins, police said.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – Dynel Lane, the Colorado woman accused of cutting out an expectant mother’s unborn child in an attack earlier this year, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Boulder County court. Wilkins survived the attack.

Her trial date has been set for February 16, 2016 and is expected to last two weeks.

Michelle Wilkins via Facebook Michelle Wilkins of Longmont, Colorado, pictured here in a recent Facebook profile photo posted February 24, 2015, had an unborn baby cut out of her womb by Dynel Lane.

She has been charged with attacking Michelle Wilkins and removing her 8-month-old fetus after Wilkins responded to a Craigslist ad for baby clothes March 18. Prosecutors could not charge Lane with murder because a coroner found no evidence the fetus lived outside the womb, so they charged her with unlawful termination of a pregnancy.

Lane entered the plea of not guilty through her lawyers, said Catherine Olguin, spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office in Boulder.

Lane was arrested after arriving at the same hospital the victim was rushed to, allegedly carrying a deceased infant and claiming she had a miscarriage. Wilkins was left bleeding in the basement, but managed to call for help.

Wilkins is in Colorado for a visit, but did not attend Thursday’s arraignment hearing.

She remained in custody on a $2 million bond at Boulder County Jail on Wednesday.