Traumatized father whose heavily pregnant teen wife was strangled to death by crazed 'womb raider', 51, who stole her baby reveals tiny newborn's final moments before he also died

A traumatized begetter whose large woman was strangled to decease by a Chicago pistillate who lured the teen to her location and chopped her babe from her womb with a butcher weapon revealed that his babe lad took his 'last enactment successful my arms'.

Clarisa Figueroa, 51, was sentenced to 50 years successful situation connected Tuesday over the 2019 execution of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, a 19-year-old who was lured to Figueroa's location by the committedness of escaped covering for her unborn child.

After killing Marlen, who was 9 months pregnant, Figueroa called 911, saying she fixed commencement and that her kid was not breathing. The babe lad was enactment successful intensive attraction and died astir 2 months later.

Yovanny Lopez, Marlen's hubby and the begetter of infant, broke down extracurricular the Cook County courtroom Tuesday aft sharing however the tragedy affected him and their older son, Joshua, who helium said 'has mislaid his parent forever.'

'The representation of my babe son's past enactment successful my arms is implicit agony,' Lopez said successful a connection work successful court. 'I mislaid my household and that volition ever enactment with me.'

He besides addressed Figueroa directly, telling her that 'God's justness volition beryllium served upon you the time you die'.

Figueroa, seated successful a wheelchair and wearing a agleam yellowish jumpsuit, pleaded blameworthy to execution Tuesday and was sentenced to 50 years successful prison.

She did not supply a connection but answered 'Yes' erstwhile Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas asked her if she understood she would request to service the full condemnation and would not person aboriginal merchandise connected parole.

Prosecutors person said Figueroa strangled Marlen with an electrical cablegram connected April 23, 2019. She had spoken to the teen connected connected connected a Facebook leafage for large women and lured her to her location with the committedness of escaped babe clothes.

The 46-year-old enlisted her girl Desiree Figueroa, 29, to assistance transportation retired a sick crippled to termination the expectant parent and bargain her babe to rise it arsenic her own.

Desiree distracting Marlen by showing pictures of her dormant member earlier Clarisa strangled her and sliced unfastened her womb. 

The erstwhile certified nursing adjunct tried passing the babe disconnected arsenic her own, calling 911 and having the kid rushed to hospital, but the babe died 2 months later.  

Desiree pleaded blameworthy to execution successful January for helping her parent and was sentenced to 30 years successful prison. She had agreed to attest against her mother. 

Following the sentencing Tuesday, Marlen's grieving parent Raquel Uriostegui said successful a statement: 'The nonaccomplishment of my daughter's beingness is thing I volition ne'er overcome.' 

During the trial, it was revealed that Clarisa had mislaid a kid herself - and successful the weeks starring up to the horrific slaying, she told her household she was large again.

Authorities say she plotted for months to get a newborn, and that she posted an ultrasound and photos of a country decorated for a babe connected her Facebook page. 

Detectives investigating Marlen's disappearance learned that she had gone to the defendant's home. Two weeks aft her disappearance, constabulary recovered her car parked adjacent and were told by Desiree that her parent precocious had fixed birth.

DNA tests aboriginal determined the kid was not Clarisa Figueroa's.

Marlen's assemblage was recovered successful a garbage tin extracurricular the Figueroa home.

Clarisa tricked her boyfriend, Piotr Bobak, into believing helium was the father, constabulary and prosecutors said.

Bobak cleaned up the crime country and was sentenced to 4 years successful situation aft pleading blameworthy past twelvemonth to obstruction of justice.

In October 2018, months earlier Marlen was strangled to decease successful April 2019, Clarisa had told Desiree that she 'needed assistance sidesplitting a large pistillate and taking a baby.' 

Despite having her fallopian tubes tied years earlier, Clarisa had been lying to different household members and telling them she was large with a babe she planned to telephone Xander, and her societal media posts from the clip amusement she had shared bizarre images preparing for her fake baby. 

At the time, Marlen had been asking astir connected societal media for escaped babe apparel and strollers arsenic she couldn't spend them, and Clarisa invited her implicit promising to supply escaped items. 

Initially the teen visited their location connected April 1, 2019, wherever Figueroa told her girl - who offered morbid details of the decease successful a confession - that she had recovered her people to termination and bargain her baby.

The lone crushed Marlen escaped with her beingness that time was that Desiree's boyfriend, who was besides there, reportedly refused to assistance them.

Clarisa passed disconnected her murderous intentions arsenic an 'April Fool's joke', but conscionable weeks later, connected April 23, Marlen returned to the location for much goods. 

This time, the fellow was not there.

While she was successful the surviving room, Desiree - who was 4 months large herself astatine the clip - and her parent turned up the euphony wrong the home, and distracted her by giving her a photograph medium of Clarisa's dormant big son. 

Police antecedently said his sanction was Xavier and that helium had died aged 26. However, it was aboriginal recovered that helium was really 20, named Xander, and that helium had died lone the twelvemonth prior. 

While Marlen was distracted, Figueroa crept up down her with an electrical cable, and ambushed her arsenic she wrapped the cablegram circular her neck. 

The 19-year-old was capable to gaffe her fingers betwixt her cervix and the cable, but arsenic she struggled to escaped herself, Figueroa yelled to her daughter: 'You're not doing your f****** job!' 

At that, Desiree 'stepped up' and started 'peeling' Marlen's fingers distant from her neck.

Clarisa past climbed connected apical of her and continued to strangle her for 'four to 5 minutes', until she urinated.

It was past that she realized she had died, she told her daughter, due to the fact that she'd work that 'a idiosyncratic volition urinate connected themselves erstwhile they die.'

Once she was dead, Desiree brought her parent a butcher's knife, broad and bucket.

Clarisa past chopped the large teen's belly unfastened 'from broadside to side' and retrieved the baby, the placenta and the umbilical cord.

She placed the babe successful a bucket with the placenta, earlier wrapping Marlen's assemblage successful a broad and leaving her successful an outdoor trash tin - with the electrical cablegram inactive tied astir her neck. 

To decorativeness her sickening scheme, Clarisa past called 911 claiming to person conscionable fixed birth. When paramedics arrived, she was recovered covered successful blood, and said the babe was not breathing. 

However, infirmary unit discovered that she showed 'no signs accordant with a pistillate who had conscionable fixed birth.' 

She was not arrested, and with the 'newborn' successful the ICU, Figueroa and her fellow Piotr Bobak took horrifying images cradling the kid successful hospital, pretending it was theirs. 

The kid remained successful intensive attraction for respective months earlier passing away.  

Bobak spent the adjacent 3 weeks helping the parent and girl cleanable the home, and they adjacent acceptable up a GoFundMe asking for funds to assistance them with their caller baby.

He aboriginal pleaded blameworthy to helping conceal the murder, and was released connected parole past year. 

The horrific transgression went undetected for respective weeks, arsenic Marlen was missing but her hubby was allegedly not receiving immoderate assistance from authorities to find her. 

Their crippled was discovered after police received a extremity astir the Facebook enactment Marlen had been having with her, showing that she lured the large to her location implicit societal media.

When authorities went to the location for the archetypal clip connected May 7, they encountered Desiree who told them that her parent had conscionable fixed birth.

They past located the victim's car a artifact distant - Desiree had enactment it determination - and ordered a DNA trial of the babe who was and is inactive successful a neonatal intensive attraction portion with zero encephalon activity.

That is erstwhile they discovered the crippled and arrested each 3 suspects, and Marlen's assemblage was recovered successful the backmost yard. 

Following their arrest, an authoritative noted: 'These defendants were not that wise. The body's successful a garbage tin connected the premises with the execution weapon.'