In December 2023, two Miami-Dade inmates achieved the impossible deed of conceiving a child without ever meeting each other. After delivering their child, a baby girl, in June, the parents are explaining how they were able to get pregnant from behind bars at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
According to Miami Fox affiliate WSVN 7, the child's mother is, Daisy Link, 29, and her father is, Joan Depaz, 23. Link is charged with second-degree murder after being accused of killing her boyfriend in 2022. After allegedly shooting him in the leg, she yelled "You'll be fine."
Meanwhile, Depaz is charged with first-degree murder and is now being held at Metrowest Detention Center.
Link claims her daughter was procreated by Depaz putting his semen in Saran wrap, passing it through vents, and Link inserting the sperm through a yeast infection applicator.
"She’s a miracle baby, she’s a blessing," Link said about the "Virgin Mary" process of conceiving her daughter, adding that it was "crazy" to have never met Link.
Link revealed to WSVN that she began conversing with Depaz through the neighboring AC vents in their cells.
"Being in isolation for so long you begin to spend hours and hours talking to this person, you know, to the point where it’s almost as if you’re in the same room with them," she told the outlet.
Without having laid eyes on each other, the two began dating and Depaz shared his desires of having a child.
"'I always really wanted to have a baby. And I’m not gonna get to do that for a really long time'," recalled Depaz. "'So if I had to choose somebody, you know, it would be you.' And she was like, 'Yeah, we could do that.'"
Depaz added that he "put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight," which was pulled through the L-shaped vent using bedding material.
After Link administered the semen application, it was after a few tries that she became pregnant. "I was very excited. I was ecstatic about it," Link said.
The infant was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital on June 19, and the parents check in with her through phone calls and video visits. Depaz's mother is now raising the baby girl.
While the birth was miraculous for the parents, officials are reportedly conducting an ongoing internal affairs investigation at Miami-Dade Corrections.
