Miami inmates made a 'miracle baby' without ever meeting using Saran wrap

In December 2023, two Miami-Dade inmates made headlines by conceiving a child without ever meeting face to face. After giving birth to a baby girl in June, the parents are now sharing the extraordinary story of how they managed to get pregnant while incarcerated at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

The mother, Daisy Link, 29, is charged with second-degree murder following the fatal shooting of her boyfriend in 2022. She allegedly shot him in the leg and then told him, "You'll be fine."

The father, Joan Depaz, 23, is facing first-degree murder charges and is currently detained at Metrowest Detention Center.

Link explained that their child was conceived after Depaz placed his semen in Saran wrap, passed it through the vents, and Link then used a yeast infection applicator to insert it.

"She’s a miracle baby, she’s a blessing," Link described her daughter, calling the process of conception "crazy" and likening it to the "Virgin Mary."

She told WSVN that she and Depaz first communicated through the vents in their cells.

"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," she shared.

Without having met in person, the two developed a relationship, and Depaz expressed his desire to have a child.

"'I always really wanted to have a baby. And I’m not gonna get to do that for a really long time,'" Depaz remembered. "'So if I had to choose somebody, you know, it would be you.' And she was like, 'Yeah, we could do that.'"

Depaz further revealed that he spent up to a month, "putting the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight," which he pulled through the vent using bedding material.

After several attempts, Link finally became pregnant. "I was very excited. I was ecstatic about it," she said.