CHICAGO (AP) — A spokeswoman for the family a 19-year-old who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb says what they’re going through is “a nightmare, a horror film.”
Julie Contreras is a spokeswoman for relatives of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, whose body was found in a garbage can this week. She spoke Friday before a court hearing for three people charged in the killing.
Contreras said the family wanted to see justice for Ochoa-Lopez, and for the defendants to be held without bail.
A short time later Judge Susana Ortiz denied bail for 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa, her 24-year-old daughter Desiree Figueroa and Clarisa Figueroa’s boyfriend, 40-year-old Piotr Bobak. The Figueroas are charged with murder, while Bobak is charged with the concealment of a homicide.
The baby boy is not expected to survive.
Prosecutors say a Chicago woman charged with killing a pregnant 19-year-old and cutting her baby from her womb put the victim’s body in a garbage can hidden on the side of her garage before calling 911 and saying she’d just given birth and the baby wasn’t breathing.
Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy says firefighters took the baby and 46-year-old Clarissa Figueroa to a hospital. The baby is not expected survive.
Murphy said Figueroa had blood on her upper body and face, but an examination showed no signs consistent with a woman who had just delivered a baby.
Figueroa and her daughter, 24-year-old Desiree Figueroa, were ordered held without bond on murder charges Friday.
Murphy says after the killing, Desiree Figueroa drove Marlen Ochoa-Lopez’s vehicle to her sister’s house. He says a traffic camera captured her driving the car.
