Gerrard Kaonga
An eerie simulation showcased just how two prison inmates who never met were able to conceive a baby
Two Miami prisoners got very creative when they decided to have a baby - the biggest problem was that they hadn’t yet met one another.
An oddly rendered simulation has shown how the pair came up with a system to ensure one of them could get pregnant.
Daisy Link was the female prisoner and is currently in Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade after she was convicted of second-degree murder back in 2022.
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She recently learned her fate in the murder case and will return to court on November 21 for her pre-sentencing.
The father of her child was Joan Depaz, someone she only became aware of after realizing that she could hear noises coming from a vent.
Depaz was also behind bars on a murder charge and the pair first struck up a relationship after they had started talking between the air conditioning vents in their cells.
Eventually, it got to the point that they would talk every single evening. After a while, this was upgraded to using bed sheets and strings to send letters to one another.
The simulation that has been shared on social media went on to explain how Depaz and Link dealt with the issue of wanting a child but not being allowed in the same room as each other.
Link told WSVN you could 'knock' on the vents and 'hear the people from different floors', and 'being in isolation for so long you begin to spend hours and hours talking' to people. The inmate noted it felt like she and Depaz were 'in the same room'.
Depaz explained he's 'always really wanted to have a baby' but as a result of his charges, knew he wasn't going to 'get to do that for a really long time', and so asked Link if she wanted to try.
How they managed to conceive you may ask? Well, they certainly thought outside the box.
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.
So, while the pair 'never' physically touched each other, Link fell pregnant.
Many would question how on earth such an event is possible, though Dr Fernando Akerman, medical director of the Fertility Center of Miami, has 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.
Link went on to give birth to a baby girl, who is now believed to be living with Depaz's mom.