Family says Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui was lured by a woman she met on Facebook with the promise of baby clothes
A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from her womb, police and family members said. The newborn was in grave condition and not expected to survive.
Four people are being questioned and three have been arrested, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told CBS Chicago. One of the people in custody is considered a person of interest, the station reports.
Charges including murder to be filed Thursday afternoon, Guglielmi said. The body of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui was found early Wednesday behind the house. The nine-months-pregnant woman was last seen leaving her high school on April 23, the same day paramedics were called to the home several miles away on the Southwest Side about a newborn with problems breathing. „We believe that she was murdered, and we believe that the baby was forcibly removed following that murder,“ Guglielmi said, calling it an „unspeakable act of violence.
