A woman was convicted of murdering a young pregnant girl and cutting open her stomach to expel the child.
According to media reports, Clarissa Figueroa, a 51-year-old woman in Chicago, killed a 19-year-old girl named Marilyn Ochoa Lopez in April 2019. On Tuesday, April 16, the woman accepted her crime Is.
The 51-year-old woman is now likely to spend the rest of her life in prison. The woman’s daughter, Desiree Figueroa, also pleaded guilty to murder in January, for which she was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Desiree took a plea deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying against her mother, while Clarissa initially refused to stand trial for murder.
According to a report published by The Associated Press, Clarissa Figueroa’s son died of natural causes in 2018, after which she longed for a child.
She joined a Facebook group for expectant mothers, where she met 19-year-old Ochoa Lopez.
Figueroa called the girl, Ochoa Lopez, home to give her some baby clothes and allegedly told her daughter that he had to kill the pregnant woman and take her baby.
When Ochoa Lopez went to Figueroa’s house on April 23, 2019, he carried out his plan by strangling the girl with a cord.
Then the cruel woman called her daughter and using a knife cut the girl’s belly and took out the child from her. She later called 911 to report that she had given birth to a baby who was not breathing.
Later, when the suspicion was investigated by the police, the whole thing came to light and it took the woman four years to solve the case and quit according to the court order.
