(01-10-2024, 12:18 AM)Leftiris Wrote: Read at your own risk

Womb raider’ pleads guilty to murder for helping mom kill teen, cut baby out of her body

A Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to murder after helping her mother slaughter a pregnant teenager and cut the baby from her womb.

Desiree Figueroa, 29, entered her plea to a count of first-degree murder Monday. Figueroa’s deal with the prosecution requires she testify against her own mother in exchange for a 30-year prison sentence.

Mom Clarisa Figueroa’s first-degree murder trial stemming from the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez is scheduled to get under way on Jan. 26.

Ochoa-Lopez was 9 months pregnant when on April 23, 2019, prosecutors said she was lured to the Figueroa family’s home with the promise of free clothes for her unborn baby.

As Desiree was showing Ochoa-Lopez a photo album of her adult brother, who had recently died, Clarisa came up behind her and strangled the teen to death with a cable, prosecutors have said.

Desiree has told police that it was her job to pry Ochoa-Lopez’s fingers off the cord as she fought for her life — and then bring her mother a butcher knife to cut the baby from her womb, reported Chicago Sun-Times.

The mom-daughter duo then allegedly wrapped the 19-year-old’s carved-up body in plastic and dumped it in a garbage can outside their home.

Later, Clarisa called 911, lying that she had given birth and her newborn was not breathing. When the baby boy was taken by paramedics to a hospital, the accused womb raider passed him off as her own child.  

Ochoa-Lopez’s son died about two months later after suffering severe brain damage.

Detectives investigating Ochoa-Lopez’ disappearance learned that she had gone to the Figueroas’ home. Two weeks later, police found her car parked nearby and were told by Desiree her mom recently had given birth.

A search of the area turned up Ochoa-Lopez’s decomposing body inside the trash container outside the mom and daughter’s home on the southwest side of Chicago.  

DNA tests later confirmed that the baby whom Clarisa claimed to have delivered was not hers. He was posthumously named Yovani Lopez, after his biological father.  

Authorities said not long after Clarisa’s adult son died of natural causes, she told her family she was pregnant. She allegedly plotted for months to acquire a newborn, and that she posted an ultrasound and photos of a nursery on her Facebook page.

In March 2019, she and Ochoa-Lopez connected on a Facebook page for pregnant women.

The teen mom was first invited to the Figueroas’ home on April 1 and on that occasion left unharmed. During her second visit three weeks later, she was savagely killed and had her baby ripped out of her body.

This sounds crazy, and you'd think this rarely happens. However the same exact thing happened last year, right up the road from where I live. People have become so entitled, so covetous they will cut a baby out of a murdered woman.

The man that did this here was eventually caught, but they couldn't find the baby.
Apparently he had sold the child for drugs.

This is the stuff of nightmares, and it's becoming a common practice. 

What a sick world we live in.

(01-10-2024, 07:57 PM)Schmoe Wrote: It is a sick world.  I wonder if it's always been like this, only it gets reported on more now.  That mother is a psychopath, and I guess the apple didn't fall far.  I can't even fathom going along with an idea like that.  Insanity.

(01-10-2024, 08:56 PM)Leftiris Wrote:

(01-10-2024, 07:57 PM)Schmoe Wrote: It is a sick world.  I wonder if it's always been like this, only it gets reported on more now.  That mother is a psychopath, and I guess the apple didn't fall far.  I can't even fathom going along with an idea like that.  Insanity.

No doubt.
I've been thinking about this today and something hit me.

These two monsters not only killed a mother, they gave that newborn baby brain damage, ultimately messing up that child's entire life, and this poor young lady left another child behind.
Them throwing her in the trash can is beyond comprehension. All of it is...

(01-11-2024, 10:16 AM)Schmoe Wrote:

(01-10-2024, 08:56 PM)Leftiris Wrote:

(01-10-2024, 07:57 PM)Schmoe Wrote: It is a sick world.  I wonder if it's always been like this, only it gets reported on more now.  That mother is a psychopath, and I guess the apple didn't fall far.  I can't even fathom going along with an idea like that.  Insanity.

No doubt.
I've been thinking about this today and something hit me.

These two monsters not only killed a mother, they gave that newborn baby brain damage, ultimately messing up that child's entire life, and this poor young lady left another child behind.
Them throwing her in the trash can is beyond comprehension. All of it is...

The complete absence of morality, a soul, or anything like that disgusts me, but it also morbidly interests me.  How can people become that depraved?  Upbringing? Pre-existing mental issues?  Both?  I can't put myself in their shoes, I had a decent upbringing, but I can't think of any outside influences that would cause a person to do that to another person.