A baby cut from his mother’s womb during a brutal attack in April has died, a family spokeswoman said. Yovanny Jadiel Lopez had been in intensive care since his mother, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, was killed in Chicago.
The infant died Friday due to a severe brain injury, Julie Contreras said. The baby’s condition earlier this week had been dire, his father’s lawyer told CNN affiliate WLS. “He can’t breathe on his own. He can’t eat on his own. There’s tubes down his throat,” attorney Frank Avila said Wednesday.
“He suffered irrevocable brain damage,” Contreras added, according to the station. “There’s no medicine, there’s no pill that can fix that. Only a miracle.” Yovanny’s mother, Ochoa-Lopez, 19, was lured to a woman’s home by an offer of free baby clothes, police say.