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LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A relative says a woman accused of stabbing a pregnant stranger in the belly and taking out her unborn baby lost her own child more than a decade ago when he accidentally drowned.
Aaron Cruz, the boy's paternal grandfather, says Dynel Lane's son was 19 months old when he drowned in a shallow pond at her parents' home in Pueblo. Investigators ruled the 2002 death an accident.
Cruz says Lane and her now-ex-husband were devastated by the child's death. But he says Lane seemed to be a good mother and he saw no indication she would be violent.
Lane is accused of luring the expectant mother with a Craigslist ad about baby clothes. The woman, who was seven months pregnant, is expected to survive, but her unborn baby died.
© AP Photo/ Longmont Police Department This undated booking photo provided by the Longmont Police Department shows Dynel Lyne, 34, who is accused of stabbing a pregnant woman in the stomach and removing her baby, while the expectant mother visited… A woman advertising baby clothes on Craigslist lured a pregnant stranger to her Colorado home and then stabbed her in the belly and took out her unborn child, police say.
Dynel Lane, 34, told her husband when he returned home Wednesday that she had suffered a miscarriage, and he rushed her to a hospital with the baby, police said. The child did not survive.
The 26-year-old expectant mother, who was seven months pregnant, was found beaten and stabbed at the suspect's home, Longmont police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said. She had undergone surgery, and on Thursday was alert and answering questions, police said.
The mother went to the house in response to the online ad and "when she got into the house, she was attacked, she was beaten, and her baby was removed or cut out of her," Satur said. Lane had already left the house when police arrived.
© Matthew Jonas/Longmont Times-Call Longmont, Colo. Police on the scene of a stabbing on Wednesday. Lane, a mother of two, and the pregnant woman, who was not identified, did not know each other, investigators said. Police are looking for any other mothers who may have responded to Lane's ad for baby clothes.
Lane was arrested at the hospital on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and child abuse knowingly and recklessly resulting in death.
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said his office will consider what formal charges to file.
"The issues involving an unborn child are complicated under Colorado law," he told the Longmont Times-Call. "In most circumstances, if a child was not actually born alive, then homicide charges are not possible."
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Information from: Daily Times-Call, http://timescall.com/
Aaron Cruz, the boy's paternal grandfather, says Dynel Lane's son was 19 months old when he drowned in a shallow pond at her parents' home in Pueblo. Investigators ruled the 2002 death an accident.
Cruz says Lane and her now-ex-husband were devastated by the child's death. But he says Lane seemed to be a good mother and he saw no indication she would be violent.
Lane is accused of luring the expectant mother with a Craigslist ad about baby clothes. The woman, who was seven months pregnant, is expected to survive, but her unborn baby died.
© AP Photo/ Longmont Police Department This undated booking photo provided by the Longmont Police Department shows Dynel Lyne, 34, who is accused of stabbing a pregnant woman in the stomach and removing her baby, while the expectant mother visited… A woman advertising baby clothes on Craigslist lured a pregnant stranger to her Colorado home and then stabbed her in the belly and took out her unborn child, police say.
Dynel Lane, 34, told her husband when he returned home Wednesday that she had suffered a miscarriage, and he rushed her to a hospital with the baby, police said. The child did not survive.
The 26-year-old expectant mother, who was seven months pregnant, was found beaten and stabbed at the suspect's home, Longmont police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said. She had undergone surgery, and on Thursday was alert and answering questions, police said.
The mother went to the house in response to the online ad and "when she got into the house, she was attacked, she was beaten, and her baby was removed or cut out of her," Satur said. Lane had already left the house when police arrived.
Lane was arrested at the hospital on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and child abuse knowingly and recklessly resulting in death.
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said his office will consider what formal charges to file.
"The issues involving an unborn child are complicated under Colorado law," he told the Longmont Times-Call. "In most circumstances, if a child was not actually born alive, then homicide charges are not possible."
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Information from: Daily Times-Call, http://timescall.com/
