Marlen's husband, the young woman murdered to tear her baby, will not disconnect her son: "We are expecting a miracle"

The husband of Marlen Ochoa, the pregnant young woman who was strangled in take out the belly of your babyHe takes care of his newborn son in the hospital, as can be seen in a photo published by the family.

On April 23, two women, Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her daughter, Désirée, 24, cheated Marlen Ochoa and invited her to her home on the pretext of giving her clothes for her son. would have in May. When the young woman came to the house of strangers, Clarisa Figueroa strangled her and cut her belly stay with the baby. Then he threw Marlen's body in a garbage can.

Although little Yardiel survived, He suffered serious brain damage. Now he stays in the hospital, where dozens of cards and drawings decorate his room. There, his father takes care of him and protects him in his arms.

Since Marlen Ochoa is gone, her husband, Yovani Lopez, denounced the facts to the police and asked for the collaboration of the citizens to find her. For more than two weeks, the anguished father appeared in the media, inconsolable and unable to hold back his tears. On May 9, a police call informed him that your baby is born, but he struggled between life and death. His wife had been murdered.

DNA tests confirmed that Yovani Lopez was the father of the newborn. In order to take care of his son all the time, he quit his job. Thanks to change.org, her family created a collection to help her financially. They expect to receive $ 25,000. which will be aimed at the "future" of their children. In addition to Yardiel, the couple had a three-year-old boy, Joshua.

"Yo, Yovani Lopez, husband of Marlen Ochoa, I am very grateful to the whole community who was aware of the disappearance of my wife, I am very grateful for the help you bring me, I continue wholeheartedly to ask your help.for my son Yovanny Yardiel so that he recovers […] This help you give me will be for the future of my children. Thank you, they will thank you too. "

According to expThe doctors of the hospital became ill the baby does not have cerebral activity. An insured parent to the British newspaper Daily mail What they will not disconnect Yardiel, and they expect "a miracle".

"A brutal and atrocious murder"

On April 23, Clarisa Figueroa and her daughter Desiree would be visited at their home. a young pregnant woman they had met via a Facebook group, his name was Marlen Ochoa. They badured him that they would give him clothes for his child, that he would be born in May and that they could help him with everything he needed.

While they were having fun with a photo album at her home, in the suburbs of Oak Lawn, Chicago, Clarisa Figueroa took the opportunity to strangle Marlen with a league. Then he cut her in the belly and took out the baby.

"Clarisa took a knife and cut the belly of the victim from one side to the other then remove the umbilical cord, the placenta and the baby inside (…) then put the placenta and the child in a bucket with the umbilical cord suspended, "said the prosecutor.

After cutting the umbilical cord, the murderer realized that the little one was not breathing, so he called for emergencies. She said that she had just given birth and that her son was not breathing anymore. Emergency services were transferred to the Advocate Christ Medical Center.

According to the statements of the spokesperson of the Department of Children and Families of the State of Illinois, Jbaden Strokosch, Clarisa Figueroa would have arrived at the medical center covered in blood, a blood that was not the his. After reviewing it, there was no physical evidence that she had given birth a few hours ago, but the health staff did not alert the police.

"We did not know what was happening at the hospital"said Jbaden Strokosch.

The prosecutor explained that Clarisa Figueroa was obsessed with the desire to have a baby, especially after the death of her 20-year-old son. That's why he committed the crime, and for that reason he lied to the staff of the hospital baduring them that Yardiel was his son.

DNA tests confirmed that she they had no relationship with the babyat which time the hospital contacted the authorities. They wanted to know what they should do with child custody. They had pbaded more than two weeks after Marlen's disappearance.

The police found the victim in a garbage bin at Clarisa Figueroa, charged with murder and cause irreversible brain damage to a minor. They also arrested their daughter Desiree, who will face the same charges, and the couple Clarisa, Piotr Bobak, 40 years old.

Cook County Judge Susana Ortiz, refusal of bail to both women alluding to the fact that it was "a great presumption" that the two men had committed "brutal and brutal murder", which is why they represent a danger "real and present" for the community. On June 3, the first hearing with the judge will take place.