INMATE GETS PREGNANT THROUGH PRISON AIR VENT
An inmate from South Florida has revealed how she became pregnant by another inmate without ever having met him. Since her conviction for second-degree murder in 2022, Daisy Link has been housed at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade. The 29-year-old, however, has reportedly never met the other inmate with whom she has a child during her incarceration.
He and Link initially became friends by communicating with each other through the air conditioning vents in their cells. Joan Depaz, 24, is also being held in the correctional facility on murder charges.
"Being in isolation for so long you begin to spend hours and hours talking" to people, Link told WSVN, adding that you can "knock" on the vents and "hear the people from different floors." The prisoner reported that she and Depaz seemed to be "in the same room."
Depaz asked Link if she would like to try since he had "always really wanted to have a baby" but knew he wouldn't "get to do that for a really long time" because of his charges. And they certainly thought outside the box - or should I say, cell. Depaz clarified that he described to Link how his friend showed him "through the vent."
"Because the vents are actually shaped like an L. She could toss a pen into the vent from her room, and it would fall straight into my vent," he clarified. "We had figured out a way to drop the line," Link added. We had created a line using materials similar to bedding. According to Link, Depaz would "roll it up almost like a cigarette" and then attach it to a line they made through the vent after depositing his semen in a piece of plastic "every day like five times a day for like a month straight."
Link 'administered' it to herself after 'placing it inside [some] yeast infection applicators'. Thus, Link became pregnant even though they "never" touched each other physically—"like the Virgin Mary," according to Depaz. Depaz was identified as Link's child's father by the paternity test.
The medical director of the Fertility Center of Miami, Dr. Fernando Akerman, has confirmed that Link could have gotten pregnant in this manner, even though it seems improbable and that Link's mother has doubts about the story behind the conception.
"We estimate that their chances were probably less than 5 %," Dr. Akerman stated. "That is not to say that the chances were zero, though. Therefore, this is unquestionably an extremely uncommon case. I've never heard or read anything like this, as far as I know. On June 19, Link gave birth to the couple's child, who currently resides with Depaz's mother. The parents are now housed in separate jails and able to see their daughter on video visits.
The Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center released a statement which reads: "The care, safety and rehabilitation of all those in our custody remains our top priority. And while there is no evidence of sexual battery against our inmate at this time, the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy are currently under active investigation."