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VOLUME XCI - NO. 15 | 115 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE GOSPEL | APRIL 25-MAY 1, 2015
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A
public outcry over the violent
attack of a Longmont woman
and gruesome homicide of her
unborn baby is driving lawmakers and
the community to seek justice for the
7-month-old girl's life.
A Boulder district attorney's decision
not to charge 34-year-old suspect Dynel
Catrece Lane with the murder of Michelle
Wilkins's baby Aurora last month—a move
Archbishop Samuel Aquila called a "trav-
esty of justice"—prompted the community
to rectify an absence of laws recognizing
the unborn as victims of homicide.
Parishioners are urged to contact
lawmakers in support of the newly intro-
duced fetal homicide bill, Senate Bill 268,
which would allow perpetrators like Lane
to be brought justice for the killing of
innocent life.
Jenny Kraska, executive director of
the Colorado Catholic Conference, said
it's reprehensible that the law doesn't
recognize two victims in the
Longmont attack.
Seeking to rectify a
'travesty of justice'
Bill seeks to recognize baby Aurora as victim of crime
BY NISSA LAPOINT
303-715-3138
nissa.lapoint@archden.org
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A candle-
light vigil
was held in
March for
Michelle
Wilkins and
her baby in
Longmont.
State law-
makers are
working to
pass a law
that would
recognize
baby Au-
rora as the
second vic-
tim of the
suspects'
attack.
PHOTO
BY CLIFF GRASS-
MICK/BOULDER
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