Where inmate's 'miracle' baby is now after parents used air vent to get pregnant
This is where a prison 'miracle' baby is now after two inmates in separate cells somehow managed to have a child despite never actually meeting.
While being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade following a second-degree murder charge in 2022, Daisy Link struck up an unlikely friendship with fellow inmate Joan DePaz.
The pair would chat to one another through air conditioning vents in their cells, to the point where they would speak to each other every evening to help the time pass by.
They would use strings made from bedsheets and even began sending each other letters.
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And it got to the point where Depaz put his deposit of semen in a bit of plastic 'every day like five times a day for like a month straight,' with Link adding he'd 'roll it up almost like a cigarette' and then attach it to a line they made through the vent.
Link then 'placed it inside [some] yeast infection applicators' and then 'administered' it into herself, she recalled to WSVN.
The 30-year-old soon fell pregnant.
Link went on to give birth to a baby girl, who is now said to be living with Depaz's mother.
The inmate, who is reportedly still in contact with Depaz after he was sent to another prison, is said to see their daughter over video calls.
And Link will likely not be seeing her daughter in person considering she's been found guilty of second-degree murder for the 2022 shooting of her longtime partner, Pedro Jimenez - with whom she had two children.
Prosecutors said in court that Link shot her ex-partner in the leg outside her Homestead home and walked away as he bled to death. Her defense claimed the shooting was in self-defense after years of domestic violence, arguing she had been beaten and threatened in the days before the incident.
"That’s the father of my kids…It’s not like I didn’t love him, I did," Link said during her testimony.
Nonetheless, a South Florida jury took less than two hours to reach its verdict this week.
Following news of Link's pregnancy, many questioned how she could get pregnant in the first place.
Dr Fernando Akerman, medical director of the Fertility Center of Miami, confirmed it is possible for Link to have become pregnant in such a way.
"We estimate that probably their chances were less than five percent, but that is not to say that the chances were zero. So this is absolutely a case that is exceedingly unusual. To my knowledge I’ve never heard or read anything like this," he said.
Callum Jones