translated from Spanish: They kill pregnant and take the baby away; Mother and daughter accused of murder

Chicago.-A mother and her daughter have been accused this Thursday in Chicago, Illinois (USA), of murder in the first degree by the death by strangulation of Marlen “N”, a woman of 19 years with 9 months of pregnancy and whose baby was torn out of her womb. Clarissa “N”, 46 years old, and his 24-year-old daughter Desiree, face homicide charges in the first degree for the death of the young woman, who had to give birth on May 5 and her disappearance was reported on April 23, the same day she went to visit the home Of the defendants located in the southwest of the city. Piotr “N”, 41 years old and Clarissa’s boyfriend, was accused of helping to hide a homicide. As reported by the Chicago police at a press conference this Thursday, the youngest confessed to the agents who helped her mother to assassinate the victim, who was strangled with a coaxial cable found in a dustbin in the backyard and where they were also found is Ta week the mortal remains of Marlen.

Illustrative. Photo PxHere/CreativeCommons

The authorities so far ignore the motives of the assassins and shuffle the hypothesis that Clarisa, who lost a son in 2017, intended to raise the newborn.

Marlen, married and with a three-year-old son, was last seen on 23 April, leaving the alternative high school Latino Youth, in the district of La Villita (south of the city), towards the home of the defendants , where he had already been on previous occasions. That day he had to go pick up his son at daycare, but he never was. According to police and family members, the victim had met their assassins through a Facebook group, now closed, whose members support pregnant mothers. According to the deputy chief of Chicago police detectives Brendan Deenihan, the victim went to Clarissa’s house to pick up clothes and a baby car, and once inside, where she entered with deceit, was killed and the baby removed from her womb.

Marlen’s family is shattered by his murder. AP photo

Shortly thereafter, according to police investigation, Clarissa made a call to the emergency phone 911 to warn that the newborn child had trouble breathing, after which he was transported in critical condition to a nearby hospital where he is in care Intensive and brain-damaged. Desiree told the agents that her mother had given birth to the baby, but then the DNA tests confirmed that the newborn child is the victim’s son, and her husband’s Yovani “N.” The officers proceeded this week to interrogate the women and examine the housing, and discovered Marlen’s car parked nearby. In the same way, inside the house were found traces of blood, burnt clothes and containers with cleaning fluids, in addition to the victim’s corpse inside a dustbin in the backyard.

The authorities arrested the two women and two men. The coroner’s office confirmed on Wednesday that the remains correspond to Marlen, the same day that her husband, 20, asked for justice for the death of the young woman and held a vigil in a local church.



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