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An infant boycut from his murdered mother’s wombis struggling to survive but, six weeks after the attack, has begun to show intermittent signs of breathing on his own.
The child’s nine-months-pregnant mother, 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, vanished April 23 in Chicago, the same day that authorities say another woman, 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa, called 911 to claim that Figueroa herself had just given birth and the newborn was not breathing.
Paramedics rushed Figueroa and the newborn to a hospital, where Figueroa and her family continued to monitor and care for the child as if it were Figueroa’s own.
After the discovery May 15 of Ochoa-Lopez’s body in the garbage behind Figueroa’s home, Figueroa and her daughter, Desiree Figueroa, 24, both were charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery of a child under 13 in the death of Ochoa-Lopez, who also was known as Ochoa-Uriostegui.
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speculated the suspects wanted to “raise the child as their own.”
Cook County State’s Attorney James Murphy previously alleged in court that Clarisa and Desiree Figueroa had planned the murder for weeks and carried it out in a “cold, calculated and premeditated manner,” reportsWTTW.
From left: Clarisa Figueroa, Desiree Figueroa and Piotr Bobak.Chicago Police
A third person, Desiree’s boyfriend Piotr Bobak, 40, also is charged with one felony count of concealment of a homicide. None has yet entered a plea and all were being held without bond.
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Avila portrayed the meeting with hospital officials as “positive,” but said the victim’s family has questions regarding how Clarissa Figueroa was allowed to portray herself as the child’s mother for so long.
The hospital, citing patient privacy, has declined to comment on the case.
The child’s biological family has created aGoFundMe pagethat so far has raised more than $56,000 in pledged donations to help for care of the boy his parents had named Yadiel. The couple has a second son, Joshua, age 3. Ochoa-Lopez was due to give birth on May 5.
“With all my heart I keep asking for your help,” his father wrote. “Pray as my son Yovany Yadiel recovers.”
source: people.com
