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A Chicago lady was sentenced to 50 years in jail for the 2019 homicide of a 9-month pregnant lady, whose child was lower out of her womb.
Clarisa Figueroa modified her plea to responsible of first diploma homicide on Tuesday.
The 50-year sentence got here 5 years after she allegedly murdered 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez on April 23, 2019, and lower the lady’s child from her womb.
Cook dinner County Choose Peggy Chiampas requested if Figueroa understood she must serve 100% of that point and wouldn’t get an early launch.
CHICAGO WOMAN ACCUSED OF HELPING MOTHER KILL PREGNANT TEEN AND CUTTING THE BABY OUT GIVES BIRTH
[L-R] Clarisa Figueroa and Marlen Ochoa-Lopez. Figueroa was sentenced to 50 years in jail Tuesday for her position within the homicide of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez. (FOX 32)
“Sure,” Figueroa replied.
Figueroa’s responsible plea got here after her daughter, Desiree Figueroa, admitted to aiding her mom within the elaborate homicide plot.
Desiree agreed to testify towards her mom and was charged with 30 years in jail.
Authorities mentioned that the plot started after Figueroa’s grownup son died of pure causes and the lady started her determined seek for a new child.
Authorities mentioned that she posted an ultrasound and images of a room adorned for a child on her Fb web page.
In March 2019, she and Ochoa-Lopez linked on a Fb web page for pregnant girls. Figueroa allegedly lied to Ochoa-Lopez about being pregnant.
Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, who was a mom of a 3-year-old son and 9-months pregnant on the time of her homicide in 2019, was lured into Figueroa’s dwelling. (Chicago Police Division)
The mother-daughter duo allegedly lured the 19-year-old sufferer into their dwelling in Chicago with the promise of free child garments after posting an commercial on Fb.
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“She was giving garments away, supposedly below the pretense that her daughters had been given garments, they usually had all these additional boy garments,” Cicilia Garcia, a spokeswoman for the household, mentioned.
This mixture of reserving images offered by the Chicago Police Division on Thursday, Could 16, 2019, reveals from left, Pioter Bobak, 40; Clarisa Figueroa, 46; and Desiree Figueroa, 24. (Chicago Police Division)
Police beforehand mentioned that Clarisa Figueroa used a coaxial cable to strangle Ochoa-Lopez after which lower the infant from her womb.
Desiree Figueroa admitted to handing her mom a kitchen knife that was used to chop the infant from the womb.
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Detectives investigating Ochoa-Lopez’s disappearance found that she had gone to the Figueroas’ dwelling.
After discovering Ochoa-Lopez’s automobile close to Figueroa’s dwelling, they discovered her physique in a rubbish can exterior the house.
Later, Figueroa known as 911, mendacity that she had given beginning and her new child was not respiratory.
When the infant boy was taken by paramedics to a hospital, nurses grew to become suspicious, and the infant boy underwent DNA testing.
The testing decided the infant to be Ochoa-Lopez and her husband’s little one. The newborn, Yovanny Jadiel Lopez, died months later, in June 2019.
Arnulfo Ochoa, the daddy of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, is surrounded by members of the family and supporters, as he walks into the Cook dinner County health worker’s workplace to establish his daughter’s physique in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Solar-Occasions by way of AP)
Clarisa Figueroa tricked her boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, into believing he was the daddy, in keeping with police and prosecutors.
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Bobak cleaned up the crime scene and was sentenced to 4 years in jail after pleading responsible to obstruction of justice. He was launched on parole final 12 months.
Fox Information Digital’s Frank Miles and the Related Press contributed to this report.
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