CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old Chicago girl has pleaded responsible to first-degree homicide after authorities mentioned she helped her mom kill a pregnant teenager whose child was lower from her womb.
Desiree Figueroa’s plea was made Monday on the Leighton Criminal Court Building. It stipulates that she testify in opposition to her mom, Clarisa Figueroa, whose first-degree homicide trial is scheduled to start out later this month, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The plea deal requires Desiree Figueroa to obtain 30 years in jail.
Prosecutors have mentioned Clarisa Figueroa strangled 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez with a cable on April 23, 2019 after she was lured to the Figueroas’ residence with the promise of free clothes for her unborn youngster. Ochoa-Lopez was 9 months pregnant. Clarisa Figueroa then known as 911, saying she given start and the kid was not respiration.
The youngster died about two months later.
Authorities say not lengthy after Clarisa Figueroa’s grownup son died of pure causes, she informed her household she was pregnant. They say she plotted for months to accumulate a new child, and that she posted an ultrasound and photographs of a room adorned for a child on her Facebook web page. In March 2019, she and Ochoa-Lopez related on a Facebook web page for pregnant ladies
Detectives investigating Ochoa-Lopez’ disappearance discovered that she had gone to the Figueroas’ residence. Two weeks after her disappearance, police discovered her automobile parked close by and had been informed by Desiree Figueroa that Clarisa Figueroa lately had given start.
DNA exams later decided the kid was not Clarisa Figueroa’s.
Ochoa-Lopez’s physique was discovered in a rubbish can exterior the house.
Clarisa Figueroa tricked her boyfriend, , Piotr Bobak, into believing he was the daddy, in accordance with police and prosecutors.
Bobak cleaned up the crime scene and was sentenced to 4 years in jail after pleading responsible final 12 months to obstruction of justice.
About six months after Ochoa-Lopez was slain, Desiree Figueroa gave start in jail to her personal youngster.
