The father of a slain pregnant teenager who had her baby cut from her womb on Wednesday has voiced his frustrations with the investigation into her disappearance.
Arnulfo Ochoa, whose 19-year-old daughter was murdered in cold blood, said during a Thursday press conference that while his family is thankful his daughter's remains were identified, he could not look past 'anti-immigration laws' - which he claims delayed police action.
Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui was first reported missing by her family after she failed to pick up her three-year-old son from daycare on April 23.
Arnulfo Ochoa, whose 19-year-old daughter was murdered in cold blood, said during a Thursday press conference that while his family is thankful his daughter's remains were identified, he could not look past 'anti-immigration laws' which he claims delayed police action
The body of Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui, 19, (left) was discovered on Wednesday. Her son (right) has been in the hospital for three weeks on life support
Her body was found more than three weeks later on May 14 behind a home in a suburb on Chicago's Southwest Side, after a frustrating and lengthy search effort.
She was nine months pregnant with their son, who he has called Yadiel, who was cut out from her womb posthumously and has been in the hospital on a ventilator.
He is not expected to survive but the family said they have no plans to turn off his life support.
Clarisa Figueroa, 46, her 24-year-old daughter Desiree and her boyfriend 40-year-old Piotr Bobak have all been charged.
The two women are accused of strangling Marlen and cutting out her baby and Bobak is accused of concealing a murder.
On Wednesday, as he learned that his wife who he thought was missing had in fact been murdered, Lopez wept in front of reporters.
He cried in Spanish: 'They can't compare to the pain we're suffering. They don't know that pain we're going through. They don't know anything about it.'
'It's very painful. Very painful to see your wife with whom you lived with four years and then see her with her eyes closed.
'I just don't know... I don't know. I don't know why these horrible people did this. She didn't do anything to them she was a good person.
'Knowing that she had a family, a three-year-old son, I can't believe it. This is very hard.'
Lopez (pictured outside the Medical Examiner's office on Wednesday) said he was in a 'lot of pain, a lot of anguish, a lot sadness'
Pictured are the three suspects who were arrested after the body of a pregnant teen was found in a trash can in their yard. They are suspected of strangling the teen to death and cutting out the child from her womb
Figueroa shared photographs of herself with the baby boy on GoFundMe and pretended he was her own
He said his wife was a good woman who never brought harm to anyone. He had been appealing for information about his wife's whereabouts for weeks.
Social media posts revealed that the suspects have been posting online in recent months about the arrival of a baby boy, decorating a nursery and seeking out expectant mothers on Facebook.
After allegedly killing the teen and cutting the boy out of her, police say Clarisa called 911 claiming to have just given birth and demanding an ambulance.
Ochoa-Uriostegui (pictured in a recent photo with her three-year-old son) was nine months pregnant when she was killed
An anonymous tip led detectives to check the DNA of the baby after Clarisa set up a GoFundMe page to raise $9,000 for the baby's medical and funeral, claiming the boy was sick and wouldn't survive for long.
Ochoa-Uriostegui was last seen leaving Latino Youth High School in Pilsen on April 23.
Her family said she then drove to a home on Chicago's Southwest Side after a woman on Facebook said she had a stroller and baby clothes she wanted to give away.
Her was found a block away from the woman's home earlier this month.
The teen reportedly met Clarisa on a Facebook group called 'Help a Sister Out'.
'Hello ladies, I'm due May 10 and I still need a ton of things for my son,' she wrote on March 5.
'Due to the fact that I'm in school and can't work at the moment, I can't afford to buy the rest of the things since I'm short on cash right now,' she wrote in a plea for help.
Clarisa, who had claimed on the group that she was pregnant as well, responded and offered to give the teen 'brand new boy clothes' for free.
'It's painful to lose your wife, the woman you love the most,' Lopez said after Ochoa-Uriostegui's body was found
Ochoa-Uriostegui's husband finally got to meet his son (pictured), who he named Yadiel, three weeks after he was born. The family said they have no plans to take Yadiel off life support
This is the exchange the murdered mother and her suspected killer had which led her to go to the home to pick up baby clothes on April 23
She began posting about a baby as early as February 5 but was never thought to be pregnant.
Among photos she shared was one of a crib up against the wall that was decorated with letters spelling out the name 'Xander'.
'Baby Xander's crib is set up now we're just waiting for your arrival,' she wrote in the caption.
Xander is the same name she would use when she created the GoFundMe for the baby in May.
On March 5, she not only responded to Ochoa-Uriostegui on the Help A Sister Out Facebook page , but also posted on the group herself.
'Who is due in May where is the May mama's at?' she wrote.
After one woman responded 'right here', she replied: 'I don't feel lonely anymore yay'.
Around that time, Clarisa also appeared to have created a baby registry - which has since been wiped - and claimed her due date was at the end of May.
Later that month, on her own Facebook page, she posted another photo of the nursery in her home. It showed that a mural of a tree had been painted to surround the letters spelling 'Xander'.
'Finally finished the babies section so all we need to do is wait for his arrival (sic),' she wrote in the caption.
One friend who commented on the post asked how she could be pregnant again if she had gotten her 'Fallopian tubes' tied.
'Yeah I'm having a baby I'm due in May,' Clarisa said, claiming that her tubes were untied during 'emergency surgery' for her appendix.
'Crazy girl! Get yourself a lawyer regardless of the little miracle, get your $$$,' her friend responded.
'Yeah I was actually thinking about the same thing,' she replied.
On the night the teen disappeared, the woman allegedly called 911 and said she had just given birth and the baby wasn't breathing.
Social media screen grabs have revealed that Clarisa began posting about a baby as early as February 5. She shared a photo on her page of a crib up against the wall that was decorated with letters spelling out the name 'Xander'
That month, on her Facebook page, the Clarisa posted another photo of the nursery in her home. It showed that a mural of a tree had been painted to surround 'Xander'
The 46-year-old woman's boyfriend, who has also been arrested, posted an ultrasound as his cover photo. The photo was a match to one that is often used to fake ultrasounds
Clarisa told the dispatcher that the baby was 'pale and blue' and that she was doing CPR.
A neighbor saw her standing outside her front door with the baby, who was wrapped in a white sheet.
She noticed blood stains on her hands and on her T-shirt, but none on her shorts.
'I said, 'What's up?' and she said, 'I just had the baby. It's not breathing,'' the neighbor, who did not want to be identified, told the Chicago Sun-Times. 'She said, 'I stood up and the baby came out.''
The neighbor said the paramedics never went inside the house.
Authorities discovered that Ochoa-Uriostegui's unborn son had been 'forcibly removed' from her body after the murder. Pictured is Ochoa-Uriostegui with her elder son in 2016
Hours after Ochoa-Uriostegui disappeared the 46-year-old woman called 911 claiming she had given birth to a boy at the home and was suffering 'post-delivery issues'. Pictured is a recent photo of Ochoa-Uriostegui during her second pregnancy
Ochoa-Uriostegui's body was discovered behind this home after police took the 46-year-old woman, as well as her boyfriend and her daughter, into custody for questioning
Pictured are authorities collecting evidence in the woman's yard on Wednesday afternoon
Police were seen inspecting a fire pit in the woman's backyard on Wednesday night (pictured)
'Before she left in an ambulance, she told me several times, 'Please call up someone to come and lock the house,'' the neighbor added, revealing that the woman was living in her parents' basement.
Ochoa-Uriostegui was reported missing that same day after she didn't pick up her three-year-old son from daycare.
An autopsy revealed that the teen died from 'ligature strangulation'. Her death has been ruled a homicide.
'We believe all of them played some role in this unspeakable act of violence,' Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said of the three persons
