A Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after helping her mother butcher a pregnant teenager and cutting the baby out of her womb.
Desiree Figueroa, 29, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Monday. Figueroa’s deal with the prosecution required him to testify against his own mother in exchange for a 30-year prison sentence.
The first-degree murder trial of Clarisa Figueroa’s mother stemming from the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez is scheduled to take place on January 26.
Ochoa-Lopez was nine months pregnant when on April 23, 2019, prosecutors said, she was lured to the Figueroa family home with the promise of free clothes for her unborn child.
When Desiree showed Ochoa-Lopez a photo album of her adult brother, who had recently died, Clarisa came up behind her and strangled the teenager with a cable, prosecutors said.
Desiree Figueroa, 29, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 2019 killing of pregnant teenager Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, whose unborn child was taken from her. Cook County Sheriff Ochoa-Lopez, 19, was strangled and butchered after being lured by Figueroa and her mother with the promise of free baby clothes. Family Distribution
Desiree had told police it was her job to yank Ochoa-Lopez’s finger from the umbilical cord as she fought for her life — and then brought her mother a butcher knife to cut the baby from her womb, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The mother and daughter then allegedly wrapped the 19-year-old’s body in plastic and dumped it in a bin outside their home.
Later, Clarisa called 911, lying that she had given birth and that the baby was not breathing. When the baby boy was taken by paramedics to the hospital, the accused womb invader had mistaken him for his own child.
Ochoa-Lopez’s son died about two months later after suffering severe brain damage.
Desiree Figueroa has agreed to testify against her mother, Clarisa Figueroa, in her murder trial. AP Clarisa Figueroa is accused of cutting Ochoa-Lopez’s baby boy from her womb and making it her own.
Detectives investigating Ochoa-Lopez’s disappearance learned that she had gone to the Figueroas’ home. Two weeks later, the police found her car parked nearby and were told by Desiree that her mother had just given birth.
A search of the area found Ochoa-Lopez’s decomposing body in a garbage container outside the mother and daughter’s home on Chicago’s southwest side.
A DNA test later confirmed that the baby that Clarisa claimed was born was not hers. He was posthumously named Yovani Lopez, after his biological father.
Authorities say shortly after Clarisa’s adult son died of natural causes, she told her family she was pregnant. She allegedly planned for months to have the newborn, and posted ultrasounds and pictures of the nursery on her Facebook page.
In March 2019, she and Ochoa-Lopez connected on a Facebook page for pregnant women.
The teenager’s mother was first invited to the Figueroas’ home on April 1 and was unharmed on that occasion. During her second visit three weeks later, she was brutally murdered and her baby ripped from her body.
Ochoa-Lopez’s decomposed body was found in a dumpster weeks after her murder. Marlene Ochoa-Lopez / Snapchat
Clarisa tricked her boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, into believing he was the father, according to police and prosecutors.
Bobak cleared the scene and was sentenced to four years in prison, after pleading guilty last year to obstruction of justice charges.
About six months after Ochoa-Lopez was killed, Desiree gave birth to her own child in prison.
With Postal wire
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