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Clarisa Figueroa.Chicago Police Department
The child was rushed to the hospital where it remains in “grave” condition, a police spokeswoman told PEOPLE. Family members of the victim have said the infant ison life support and shows no sign of brain function.
Johnson told reporters: “Through DNA testing we are now certain the child was Ms. Ochoa’s.”
Desiree Figueroa.Chicago Police Department
A third person, Desiree’s boyfriend Piotr Bobak, 40, is also charged with one felony count of concealment of a homicide.
Piotr Bobak.Chicago Police Department
Johnson alleged that Desiree admitted to helping her mother strangle the pregnant teen with a coaxial cable. Both the cable and Ochoa-Lopez’s body were found Wednesday in a garbage can on the Figueroas’ property, Johnson said at the news conference.
Victim Was Allegedly Lured on Facebook Moms Group
In that now-defunct Facebook group, titled “Help A Sista Out,” Ochoa-Lopez had appealed for a double stroller before she went missing, reportsCNN.
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“Due to the fact that I’m in school and can’t work at the moment, I can’t afford to buy the rest of the things since I’m short on cash right now,” Ochoa-Lopez wrote, according to screen shots of the exchange, reportsCBS Chicago.
The three-week interim between her disappearance and the discovery of her body left her family desperate and, eventually, angry at the delay. The victim’s father, Arnulfo Ochoa, alleged at a separate Thursday news conference that police “took too long to get” to the body, reports CNN.
According toThe Washington Post, after the body was found, Ochoa-Lopez’s husband, Yovany Lopez, tearfully told reporters, “Why did these bad people do this? She did nothing to them. She was a good person.”
source: people.com
