Crime and Craigslist are not unknown to each other, and it has happened again. This time, a Colorado woman was brutally attacked when she answered an ad that was selling baby clothes.

What police say happened then is horrific: The 34-year-old woman who lives at the home, in the 1600 block of Green Place in Longmont, stabbed the pregnant woman and “removed” her baby.

The baby did not survive.

Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said police responded to the home on a stabbing call at about 2:45 p.m.

Satur said officers arrived on the scene and could hear a woman calling for help inside the home. They entered and found the victim, who had been beaten and stabbed in the stomach with a knife.

The woman who was attacked was taken to Longmont United Hospital, where she underwent surgery and is expected to recover, he said.

“Removed” seems so sanitized and civilized a word to use. Let’s be crystal clear about what happened. The victim was beaten, and then was gutted with a knife to remove her child, by her attacker. She was then left to die, and the only reason she didn’t is because she was able to call 911.

Sadly, the baby did not survive. Police have the suspect in custody – a former nurse’s aide who had a baby registry for a child supposedly born last November all set up.

The suspect allegedly arrived at the same hospital later with her husband and a deceased baby, claiming she had a miscarriage.

Satur said that woman, identified in court records and a police report as 34-year-old Dynel Catrece Lane, was arrested on suspicion of three felonies — attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and child abuse knowingly/recklessly resulting in death. She is expected in court Thursday afternoon.