Inmates hatch astonishing plot to get pregnant in jail without even meeting: 'Like the Virgin Mary'
Two inmates in solitary confinement have revealed the 'exceedingly unusual' way they got pregnant without even meeting.
Daisy Link, 29, gave birth to a baby girl on June 19, while serving time at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, Florida .
She had been behind bars for about two years at that point, serving time without bond for allegedly murdering her boyfriend.
The pregnancy confounded Link's family, who suggested she was sexually assaulted and demanded an internal investigation, WSVN reports.
But it has now been revealed that the baby's father is another inmate, Joan Depaz, 23, who is also accused of murder.
The two had never met face-to-face and when asked if they ever even touched, Depaz told the news station: 'Never, like the Virgin Mary.'
Instead, the couple explained, Depaz passed his semen through the air conditioning vents in their cells.
'You would knock on it and you can hear the people from the different floors,' Link said. 'You would stand on the toilet and actually to be able to talk to them.'
Accused murderers Daisy Link, 29, (left) and Joan Depaz, 23 (right) devised a plan to get pregnant while in solitary confinement
Their baby was born on June 19, and is now in the custody of Depaz's mother
Through the vents, the two inmates began a romantic relationship, passing notes and photos back and forth.
'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 as them,' Link explained.
Eventually, Depaz shared his dream of sometime having a baby.
'I'm not gonna get to do that for a really long time,' he said he remembers telling Link. 'So if I had to choose somebody, you know, it would be you.
'And she was like, "Yeah, we could do that."'
For her part, Link said she doesn't 'know what my fate is' and doesn't know what is actually hers.
'If we're gonna go out, might as well just go out with a bang, you know?' she said.
'If it works, it works. But it definitely did.'
Link called her baby girl 'a miracle' and a 'blessing' after the unusual method they used to get pregnant
The couple then devised a plan in which Depaz would pass his semen to Link, using a chain of bedding.
'I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight,' he recounted.
'He would kind of like roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent, and I was pulling it through,' Link added.
'From there, I had placed it inside of, you know, the yeast infection applicators? I had placed it inside of there, and then from there, yeah I administered it.'
She said it only took a few times before she became pregnant, and when she found out she was with child, she said she was 'very excited' and 'ecstatic.'
'I can't believe it worked,' Link said. 'I think everything happened for a reason.'
'She's a miracle baby. She's a blessing.'
Link had been behind bars for about two years when she gave birth to her daughter, serving time without bond for allegedly murdering her boyfriend
An internal affairs investigation into the couple's successful scheme at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, Florida is ongoing
Dr. Fernando Akerman, the medical director of Fertility Center of Miami, told the news station the chances of their plan resulting in a successful pregnancy is slim, but not impossible.
'We estimate that probably their chances were less than five percent, but that is not to say that the chances were zero,' he said.
'So this is absolutely a case that is exceedingly unusual. To my knowledge, I've never heard or read anything like this.'
Link and Depaz are now in separate jails, but still talk on the phone and see their daughter - who is now living with Depaz's mother - on video visits.
'She could be anything,' Link said of her baby girl. 'I think that she's gonna be something great.'
In the meantime, officials with Miami-Dade Corrections say an internal affairs investigation into the couples' successful scheme is ongoing.
