A baby boy has died weeks after being cut from his mother's womb

journalstar.com ^ | 06-14-2019 | By Kelly McCleary and Doug Criss

[Red Badger]

A baby cut from his mother's womb during a brutal attack in April has died, a family spokeswoman said.

Yovanny Jadiel Lopez had been in intensive care since his mother, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, was killed in Chicago.

The infant died Friday due to a severe brain injury, Julie Contreras said.

The baby's condition earlier this week had been dire, his father's lawyer told CNN affiliate WLS.

"He can't breathe on his own. He can't eat on his own. There's tubes down his throat," attorney Frank Avila said Wednesday.

"He suffered irrevocable brain damage," Contreras added, according to the station. "There's no medicine, there's no pill that can fix that. Only a miracle."

Yovanny's mother, Ochoa-Lopez, 19, was lured to a woman's home by an offer of free baby clothes, police say. She was then strangled and her unborn baby cut from her. Her body was found weeks later in a garbage can.

Three people have been arrested and charged in the killing.

In a photo the family released last month, Yovanny is held by his father, Yovani Lopez. The picture, taken by a student pastor, shows the baby attached to various tubes and apparently asleep in his father's arms.

Around the time the photo was taken, the baby opened his eyes.

"We were just praying and praying and he opened his eyes, and his dad said, 'Oh my God, he opened his eyes!'" Cecilia Garcia, a student pastor who was assisting the family, told CNN at the time. Prosecutors: Mother-daughter duo killed pregnant teen

A mother and daughter are charged in Ochoa-Lopez's killing.

Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her 24-year-old daughter, Desiree Figueroa, were indicted Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder, WLS reported. Clarisa Figueroa's boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, 40, was indicted on a charge of concealing a homicide, WLS said.

All three are set to be arraigned June 26, court documents show. Bobak's lawyer hasn't seen a copy of the indictment but maintains his client's innocence, the attorney told CNN.

A decision on additional charges will be made once police and the medical examiner's office complete their investigations into the baby's death, prosecutors said Friday.

Desiree Figueroa distracted Ochoa-Lopez with a photo album while the elder Figueroa wrapped a cable around Ochoa-Lopez's neck, assistant state's attorney James Murphy said.

Clarisa Figueroa then got on top of the teen and strangled her for about four to five minutes, the prosecutor said.

When she was dead, the elder Figueroa cut the teen's baby from her womb. She then called 911 and said she'd just delivered a baby that wasn't breathing, Murphy said.

Clarisa Figueroa and the infant then were hospitalized, though the woman showed no signs to suggest she'd just delivered a baby, Murphy said.

The suspects allegedly planned the attack for months.

Figueroa's 20-year-old son, Xander, had died in 2018, according to prosecutors. In October, she announced she was pregnant, which surprised her family because her fallopian tubes were tied.

By December, Figueroa had posted a Facebook picture of an ultrasound showing what she claimed was the baby she was carrying, Murphy said. Two months later, she posted a picture of a crib and baby's room to a Facebook page that provides baby items for families in need, he said.

She posted on the page again the following month, asking, "Who is due in May" and "Where is the May mama's at."

Figueroa connected there with Ochoa-Lopez, who at that time was seven months pregnant, Murphy said. The teen had posted that she was looking for baby items, including a stroller. Figueroa offered her clothes for the baby and suggested they talk in a private message.

Then on April 1, Figueroa told her daughter that "she needed help killing a pregnant woman and taking a baby," Murphy said.

[Does so]

The names suggest a third-world country.

[Red Badger]

Chicago..................same thing..................

[Jack Hammer]

Chicago. All you need to know.

[highpockets]

I was unaware of this horrific crime until today and am sickened to learn how this baby boy was torn from his mother’s womb after her murder.

If you follow the link and duck duck go the boyfriends name a picture of all three responsible will make you cringe. Their eyes are dead. Pure evil.

[mrsmel]

Their actions suggest evil spawn of Satan. Utterly evil. They’d be shoo-ins as employees for the baby-killing mills. The number qualification is disbelief in the sanctity of life, and they surely have that in spades. If they’d managed to keep the poor baby, I would bet money that it would be abused in every way possible.

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[Mrs. Don-o]

The murderers: the devil mother's boyfriend Piotr, the devil mother Clarisa, and the devil daughter Desiree.

Total amateurs. Not like professional Women's Health Care providers.

The pro's aim for a live woman and a dead baby.

The amateurs aim for a dead woman and a live baby.

They managed to get both dead.

As a matter of justice, they should all be dead by an Act of God.

But the Lord knows all things, and He knows what is best. I can hardly handle my disgust.

[Albion Wilde]

Women: do not go alone and unarmed to meet complete strangers from Craigslist or any other source at a private home, no matter what they are offering. This same crime, with the same incentive — baby clothes — happened in 2015 in Colorado:

'I got a knife and I cut the baby out': Woman, who faked her pregnancy, describes how she 'slit another woman from hip to hip and removed her child' in horror Craigslist attack

The woman in this earlier case survived the attack, miraculously. But few do who have this happen, from blood loss, if abandoned, or outright murder during the crime.

[ronnie raygun]

This is what we need in this country, upstanding hard working intelligent people

[MikelTackNailer]

No mention of the citizenship status of these people, Chicago being sanctuary and "that's racist".

Utterly monstrous and beyond my capability to understand. Fry them.

[lightman]

PP perps do this every day in their abortuaries.

[cdcdawg]

My goodness. This makes me want to say a prayer and read Kipling’s The Stranger at My Gate all at once.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dreadful. RIP.

[hal ogen]

Just where do these ghoulish freaks come from? They have no place in a civil society. Shoot them (after a fair trial and conviction, of course).