Florida inmate used prison air vent to get pregnant ‘like Virgin Mary’

An accused killer held in a Florida jail claims she got pregnant with another inmate’s baby without ever having met him in person.

Daisy Link, 29, is being held in at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County for the alleged murder of her husband in 2022. The reported father of the baby, Joan Depaz, 23, is facing a separate murder charge and was being held in the same facility before being moved to another jail.

Link gave birth to a baby girl in June and called their child “a miracle baby,” while Depaz commented that the conception was “like the Virgin Mary,” when speaking to local media.

The two began a romantic relationship after communicating through air conditioning vents in their cells, Link told WSVN television in Miami.

“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,” Link said.

Talking to WSVN, Depaz recalled telling Link: “I always really wanted to have a baby. And I’m not gonna get to do that for a really long time. So if I had to choose somebody, you know, it would be you.”

That’s when he claims they hatched a plan to conceive a child.

Depaz would reportedly attach semen in plastic wrap to a line and send it through the vents to her cell.

“I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight,” he told the media.

“He would kind of roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent and I would pull it through,” Link said. She added that she would then place it inside yeast infection applicators and “administer it.”

The couple are now being held at separate facilities, records show. They still talk on the phone and have video calls with their child, which is reportedly being cared for by Link’s family.

Miami-Dade Corrections is reportedly conducting an internal investigation into the incident.