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Ellie Wilkins testified against Dynel Lane nearly a year after Lane tried to murder her and cut out her 7-month-old fetus, Aurora, from her womb

"I think it took everything she had, every bit of emotional and psychic energy and physical energy, to get in that courtroom," the prosecutor tells PEOPLE

What was “really challenging” was how “emotionally raw” she felt afterward, says Wilkins, who is now writing a memoir

Her voice shook not as much as it could have — though tears occasionally leaked from her eyes — as Ellie Wilkins took the stand in February 2016 and faced the woman who had tried to murder her and killed her 7-month-old fetus a year earlier.

It was a pivotal moment in the trial of 35-year-old Dynel Lane, who was convicted of assault, attempted murder and unl

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