Daisy Link likened her pregnancy to the Virgin Mary’s, telling journalists that she and a fellow prison inmate had cooked up an elabaroate scheme to concieve a child
A woman who became pregnant with a “miracle baby” in jail – seemingly without any physical contact – has gone on trial charged with murder.
Daisy Link, 30, was jailed in Florida in 2022 after she was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder following the 2022 killing of her husband, Pedro Jimenez. She made headlines when, while being held at the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, she became pregnant without having any kind of sexual contact.
She gave birth to a baby whose father was also in jail at the time of conception in 2024, and is now standing trial for the murder of her late husband.
During Link’s trial, which began on October 8, her attorneys claimed she shot her husband, but only in self-defence after she was subject to years of abuse. Link claimed her husband hit her with a pistol during a violent argument five days before the fatal shooting.
Body camera footage played at the trial showed the moments after she allegedly shot her husband in the leg, inflicting a wound that would later prove fatal.
Prosecutors argued she had opened fire at her husband out of “rage” before subsequently misleading investigators. She said she found her husband injured in an alleyway. In the CCTV footage, she can be heard asking first responders while crying: “Is he OK? Is there a pulse?”
Jurors will decide whether the shooting was justified. Link originally made headlines in the US after news emerged that she had become pregnant in 2023 despite having had no physical contact while imprisoned at her mixed-sex Florida facility.
It was later discovered that she had cooked up an elaborate plot with male inmate Joan Depaz, with whom court records showed she had started chatting through prison air vents.
Over two months, Depaz sent semen enclosed in plastic wrap through those same prison vents, which Link used to inseminate herself over a two-month period after Depaz, who was also imprisoned on murder charges, said he wanted a child.
Speaking to WSVN Miami, Link likened her pregnancy to the Virgin Mary’s, and said: “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.” And Depaz told the network: “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. And she was like, ‘Yeah, we could do that.’” Link was able to receive the packets of semen from Depaz via a makeshift fishing line fashioned from prison items.
Records specified the line was made from plastic pens, inmate meal labels and string from her mattress, with Link telling WSVN: “We had figured out a way to drop the line. It was a line that we had established out of like bedding material.” She added Depaz “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 would pull it through”.