Florida inmates reveal how they got pregnant behind bars - without meeting in person

Daisy Link and Joan Depaz, 2 Florida inmates, managed to person a kid unneurotic portion down bars contempt ne'er gathering face-to-face, with the daze gestation present explained

A Florida inmate has revealed however she got large with different inmate contempt ne'er gathering face-to-face.

Daisy Link has been down bars connected a second-degree execution complaint since 2022, but the 29-year-old mysteriously became large by different inmate. Joan Depaz, 24, is besides progressive successful the daze pregnancy astatine Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center successful Miami-Dade County, Florida. Both are down bars for abstracted murder charges.

Link has since described the kid arsenic "a occurrence baby" portion Depaz has compared the 29-year-old's gestation to "like the Virgin Mary". While the 2 inmates had been speaking to 1 different and formed a relationship, they had not met face-to-face.

Link said: "Being successful isolation for truthful agelong you statesman to walk hours and hours talking to this person, you know, to the constituent wherever it’s astir arsenic if you’re successful the aforesaid country with them." Depaz recalled: "I ever truly wanted to person a baby. And I’m not gonna get to bash that for a truly agelong time. So if I had to take somebody, you know, it would beryllium you."

From there, the brace hatched a program for a babe that Depaz said would "go down successful history". Link was asked however she managed to get large portion awaiting proceedings successful prison, to which she replied it was "through the vent". She explained to WSVN: "You would sound connected it and you tin perceive the radical from the antithetic floors. You would basal connected the toilet really to beryllium capable to speech to them.

For a period the brace plotted the pregnancy, with the vent revealed to person a driblet down which meant Link could driblet thing from her vent into the compartment Depaz was in. The 24-year-old would enactment his semen successful Saran wrapper "every time similar 5 times a day" for a month.

Link explained: "He would benignant of rotation it up astir similar a cigaret and helium would connect it to the enactment that we had successful the vent and I would propulsion it through." She would past spot the semen successful "yeast corruption applicators" and "administered it". After a fewer tries, she became pregnant. Dr. Fernando Akerman says that portion the chances of becoming large this mode are slim, it is possible.

The baby, calved connected June 19, is present five-months-old and surviving with Depaz's mother. Link added: "I can’t judge it worked. I deliberation everything happened for a reason. She could beryllium anything. I deliberation that she’s gonna beryllium thing great. It’s a existent twist it, it is. Everybody says it to me: 'This is similar immoderate Lifetime Movie Network.'"

The mates are present being held astatine abstracted facilities. Depaz, who faces a first-degree execution charge, is being held astatine Metrowest Detention Center portion Link, who faces a second-degree execution charge, is inactive astatine Turner Guilford Knight, records show. They inactive speech connected the phone, WSVN reported, and person video calls with their child.