A Chicago woman pleaded guilty Monday to helping her mother kill a pregnant teenage boy and cut the teen's baby from her womb, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Desiree Figueroa, 29, has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and plans to testify against her mother, Clarissa Figueroa, under a plea agreement. Chicago Tribune reporting. The alleged victim is 19-year-old Maren Ochoa Lopez, who is reportedly nine months pregnant and was last seen leaving the high school in April 2019. It was the 23rd.
Prosecutors alleged that the mother-daughter duo lured Ochoa-Lopez to their home in April 2019 with the promise of free baby clothes. Later, while Desiree Figueroa was talking to Ochoa-Lopez, Clarisa Figueroa allegedly approached her from behind and strangled her. Coaxial cable victim. Clarissa Figueroa then cut open the victim's body and removed her baby, and she told the dispatcher on a 911 call that “she just gave birth and was not breathing,” police said. Clarissa Figueroa and Ochoa Lopez's babies were both taken to the hospital.
Desiree Figueroa told investigators that her mother had given birth, and while at the hospital, Clarissa Figueroa told investigators that Ochoa-Lopez's car was parked near her home.・The report points out that he denied having welcomed Lopez into his home. Police reportedly determined through DNA testing that the baby was not Clarissa Figueroa's. The baby, Yovany Jadiel Lopez, died on June 14, 2019, the newspaper reported. (Related: Father detained on suspicion of murdering pregnant wife and kidnapping young son, later found dead on roadside)
Clarisa Figueroa allegedly tricked her boyfriend Piotr Bobak into believing the baby was hers. Investigators found Bobak cleaning rugs inside the home with bleach and a hose, but he left when he saw them, the report said. Investigators reportedly found Ochoa-Lopez's body in a trash can outside the home. Bobak pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstruction of justice in 2023 and was sentenced to four years in prison, the newspaper reported.
Desiree Figueroa reportedly accepted a 30-year prison sentence, while Clarisa Figueroa's trial is scheduled for late January.
Ochoa-Lopez's husband, Yovany López, told the magazine, “It's very difficult to lose my wife, with whom we spent so much beautiful time together.''
“We came to this country to give our daughter a good life, but there are bad people in this country who took our daughter's life,” said Arnulfo Ochoa, Ochoa-Lopez's father. .
