The terrifying details behind the murder of the pregnant woman who was forced to give birth

One of the alleged killers of Marlen Ochoa UriósteguiThe 19-month-old pregnant girl, found dead and 19-year-old pregnant, arrived bloody in a Chicago hospital with a seriously ill baby in her arms. According to his version, it was his son who was born without breathing. Although the medical staff found that the woman had no signs of delivery, he did not alert the police.

According to the authorities, Clarisa Figueroa was examined on April 23 at the Advocate Christ Medical Center in the suburb of Oak Lawn. The doctors cleaned up the blood on her body, but they discovered that she had not given birth several hours before, as she had claimed. Therefore, the baby who is now in intensive care and who has brain damage is not his.

"We can not provide comments", was the official response given by the medical center to the television network Univision. "We are cooperating with the authorities and as it is an ongoing police case, we are sending all inquiries back to the local authorities," they said.

Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her 24-year-old daughter, Désirée, are charged with murder for Marlen's death. The girl was due to give birth on May 5 and her disappearance was reported April 23, the same day she went to the house of suspects located southwest of the city of Illinois. In addition, Piotr Bobak, Clarissa's boyfriend, was accused of helping to hide the crime.

As reported Chicago police at a press conference, Desiree confessed to the agents that she had helped her mother kill the victim. Marlen was strangled with a cable, which was found in the garbage of Figueroa house. In the same place, the remains of this week appeared.

Until now, the authorities are unaware of the motivations of the murderers and are considering the hypothesis that Clarisa Figueroa, who lost her son in 2017, I wanted to raise the newborn.

Marlen's crime

On April 23, the girl left her high school and went to Figueroa's house in response to an ad for free baby clothes that the accused posted on Facebook. According to the survey, once inside the house, the victim was strangled and forced to give birth.

A few hours later, Clarisa Figueroa called 911, desperate to say that her newborn was no longer breathing. When the emergency staff arrived, the baby was blue. They tried to revive him and transferred him to a nearby hospital where, according to the authorities, he remains in serious condition and is unlikely to live.

The police did not establish a link between the disappearance of the woman and the 911 call about the baby until May 7, when friends of Ochoa Lopez took the detectives on their Facebook account, which showed that he had communicated with Figueroa. in a Facebook group on pregnant women.

The researchers performed a DNA badysis on the newborn, which showed that Ochoa López and her husband, Yiovanni López, they were the real parents of the baby. Suspected of having murdered his mother, the police went to Figueroa's house and found his car a few blocks away. Later, they found the body in a garbage bin in front of the house.