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Baby boy, cut from Chicago mother's womb as she was killed, dies, family says
Source: USA Today
Baby boy, cut from Chicago mother's womb as she was killed, dies, family says
Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY Published 1:00 p.m. ET June 14, 2019 | Updated 1:01 p.m. ET June 14, 2019
A newborn baby boy who was cut from his mother's womb when she was killed in Chicago in April has also died, his family said.
Yovanny Jadiel Lopez died Friday after being on life support for more than a month after the attack. The infant's family had been weighing whether to remove him from life support, but the child died from a severe brain injury, a family spokeswoman, Cecilia Garcia, said.
Yovanny's mother, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, died after she was attacked on April 23. Authorities say Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her daughter, Desiree, 24, lured Ochoa-Lopez, 19, to their home with a Facebook post offering free baby clothes, strangled her, removed her child from her womb with a knife and threw her in a garbage can after wrapping her in plastic.
Figueroa had lied about being pregnant and claimed she had given birth to the baby after cutting him from Ochoa-Lopez's womb, authorities say. She allegedly called 911 after the attack, saying her newborn child couldn't breathe.
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Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY Published 1:00 p.m. ET June 14, 2019 | Updated 1:01 p.m. ET June 14, 2019
A newborn baby boy who was cut from his mother's womb when she was killed in Chicago in April has also died, his family said.
Yovanny Jadiel Lopez died Friday after being on life support for more than a month after the attack. The infant's family had been weighing whether to remove him from life support, but the child died from a severe brain injury, a family spokeswoman, Cecilia Garcia, said.
Yovanny's mother, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, died after she was attacked on April 23. Authorities say Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her daughter, Desiree, 24, lured Ochoa-Lopez, 19, to their home with a Facebook post offering free baby clothes, strangled her, removed her child from her womb with a knife and threw her in a garbage can after wrapping her in plastic.
Figueroa had lied about being pregnant and claimed she had given birth to the baby after cutting him from Ochoa-Lopez's womb, authorities say. She allegedly called 911 after the attack, saying her newborn child couldn't breathe.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/14/chicago-baby-boy-cut-mother-marlen-ochoa-lopez-womb-dies/1454738001/
Yovanny Jadiel Lopez died two months after the attack that killed his mother (CBS)
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