An inmate in South Florida in the US has spoken about how she got pregnant by another inmate without ever meeting him.
Daisy Link is currently in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, since 2022, when she was convicted of second-degree murder.
However, during her time behind bars, the 29-year-old ended up having a child with another inmate, who she allegedly never met in person.
Joan Depaz, 24, was also being held at the correctional center on murder charges, and he and Link first began a relationship by talking to each other through the air conditioning ducts in their cells.
Link told ÝSVN that she could "hear people from different floors" through the suction tubes, and "being in solitary confinement for so long she starts spending hours talking" to people. She noted that she felt like she and Depaz were "in the same room."
Depaz explained that he "always really wanted to have a baby," but as a result of his accusations, he knew he wasn't going to "do it for a really long time," so he asked Link if she wanted to try.
Depaz explained that he told Link about how his friend had shown him "through the tubes".
"Because the ventilation ducts are like an L shape. It falls right into the room, from her room, she can throw a pen and it will fall right into my room,” he explained.
"We had found a way to remove the carrier. It was a curse that we had created from the material of the bed," he said.
So, Depaz put his sperm deposit in some plastic "every day, up to five times a day for a month straight".
Link then 'placed it inside [several] infection applicators and then 'administered' it to herself.
And so, despite the fact that they "never" physically touched each other "like the virgin Mary," Depaz noted, Link ended up getting pregnant.
The paternity test proved that Depaz was the father of Link's child.
Despite how unlikely it seems, and Link's mother doubts their story, the medical director of the Fertility Center of Miami, Dr Fernando Akerman, has confirmed that it is possible for Link to have become pregnant in such a way.
Dr Akerman said: "We estimate that their chances were probably less than five per cent, but that doesn't mean the chances were zero. So this is absolutely a case that is extremely unusual. To my knowledge I have not heard of or ever read anything like this."
Link gave birth to the couple's child on June 19, and the child now lives with Depaz's mother. The parents are now housed in separate prisons and are able to see their daughter on video.