The alleged suspects – a mother-daughter pair – have been apprehended and now face two murder charges a piece, but the family of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez struggles to move on, not only as a result of the emotional horror of the situation but because what they described as further insults. Ochoa-Lopez’s husband
A Chicago family can’t seem to wake from the nightmare they faced when a young mom was murdered in April and had her newborn -- who died about two months later -- cut from her stomach.
"His belief that his baby is in heaven with the baby's mother is what’s keeping him through this," said Frank Avila, the attorney for Yovany Lopez, Ochoa-Lopez’s husband and the father of Yovanny Lopez. The horrific case has unfolded over the past two months, with more sordid details being released with every change in the case's status.
“I think that he’s going to have things that haunt him forever,” Avila said of Yovany Lopez, who Avila said is 20-years-old and works in construction.
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