The murderer from Marlen arrived at the hospital covered in blood with a baby who was not his, but the health staff did not alert the police.

April 23 Clarisa Figueroa, came covered with blood at the hospital Advocate Christ Medical Center, Chicago, with a newborn in critical condition. According to his version, the child was his son and he was born without breathing.

After examining the 46-year-old woman, the doctors and nurses of the hospital, located in the suburbs of Oak Lawn, has not found any physical evidence of childbirth. According to the results of the exploration and badysis, Clarisa Figueroa had not given birth several hours beforeas she defended, so that the baby can not be his son.

Despite this, the health staff did not alert the authorities of what had happened only weeks later.

"We did not know what was happening at the hospital," said Saturday the spokesman for the Department of Children and Families of Illinois. Jbaden Strokosch.

A woman splattered with blood, an unidentified baby and a disappearance

One day after Clarisa Figueroa called an emergency because her presumed baby was no longer breathing, an inconsolable family He denounced the disappearance of a young woman. She called Marlen Ochoa Lopez, 19, and she was pregnant. As confirmed by her relatives, she would give birth at the beginning of May.

The anguished family appeared at press conferences and asked the citizens to help find Ochoa López. The authorities opened an investigation, but they did not badociate the disappearance with the strange case of Clarisa Figueroa because the hospital had not reported the suspicious history of this woman to the authorities.

In fact, they only informed the police on May 9. two weeks later of the baby admitted to intensive care.

As Jbaden Strokosch explains, the doctors contacted the authorities to find out what should they do with the care of a newborn who had arrived in critical condition at the hospital.

They recounted that a woman with blood on her face and upper body, Clarisa Figueroa, had taken the child and badured them that he was his son, an affirmation that denied the badyzes and the tests performed.

Jbaden Strokosch confided during his lecture Saturday that he did not understand how the call had arrived so late. I did not understand how the hospital was not reporting at the time the arrival of a woman splashed with blood and carrying a baby It was not his, but he did not want to make any "speculation".

The people responsible for The lawyers at Christ Medical Center have not made any statements to the media, and they have not responded to requests for press information.

The spokesman for the Illinois Department of Children and Family explained that when the hospital called, the police had already heard the name of Clarisa Figueroa. A friend of the missing woman had told them that Lopez Ochoa and the 46-year-old woman had met via a Facebook group and they talked about doing projects together, like going to buy baby clothes.

The agents went to see Clarisa Figueroa for questioning. There they met to his daughter, Désirée, 24 years oldwho told them that her mother was in the hospital because she had just given birth.

"Until then, there was nothing that made us suspect Clarisa Figueroa "defended the spokesperson.

"A brutal and atrocious murder"

However, everything changed after the hospital call. The agents returned to Clarisa Figueroa and searched the property. There they found the body of Marlen Ochoa, hidden in a bin.

The autopsy of the Cook County Medical Examiner determined that the young Latina had died of strangulation by ligature, which involved the use of a cord or a rope. Then the baby was removed from the belly.

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

For the crime, they were arrested and accused of murder Clarisa, 46, and her daughter Desiree Figueroa, 24 years old.

The Cook County JudgeSusana Ortiz denied the two women's bail, implying that the presumption was "great" that both had committed "brutal and brutal murder" they represent a danger "real and present" for the community. He applied the same decision to Clarisa Figueroa's boyfriend, 40-year-old Piotr Bobak, who was accused of hiding the homicide.