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Inmate Who Had ‘Miracle’ Baby After Using Air Vent To Get Pregnant Learns Her Fate In Murder Case

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The Florida woman whose strange jailhouse pregnancy shocked the public has now faced judgment for a murder case that began long before her so-called ‘miracle’ conception.

 

 

A Florida inmate who captured headlines around the world after claiming she became pregnant behind bars without ever meeting the father has now received her verdict in a murder case that predates her infamous ‘miracle’ conception.Thirty-year-old Daisy Link made international news last year when she revealed that she and fellow inmate Joan DePaz had managed to conceive a child using only an air vent and some improvised tools. The bizarre story of how it happened quickly spread across social media, earning her a mix of disbelief and fascination.

Both inmates were held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County. According to reports, the two developed a close friendship while communicating through the facility’s ventilation system, spending countless hours speaking to one another from their separate cells.

 

 

Link later explained that inmates could ‘knock’ on the vents and ‘hear the people from different floors’, describing how isolation can lead prisoners to spend long hours talking through the ducts until, as she put it, ‘it feels like you’re in the same room.’But the same woman once dubbed the ‘miracle mom’ is now facing a grim outcome. She has been convicted of second-degree murder for the 2022 shooting death of her longtime partner, Pedro Jimenez — a case that has haunted her for years.

This week, a South Florida jury deliberated for less than two hours before returning a guilty verdict, closing one of the state’s most widely discussed criminal trials of the year.

Daisy Link, whose jailhouse pregnancy shocked the world, now faces justiceCBS News
Link had been awaiting trial since her arrest in June 2022 for the fatal shooting of Jimenez outside her home in Homestead, Florida. Prosecutors alleged that she shot him in the leg and then walked away as he bled to death on the ground. Her defense team, however, claimed she acted in self-defense after enduring years of domestic abuse and threats from Jimenez.They argued that she had been beaten repeatedly and lived in constant fear in the days before the shooting. During her testimony, she said: “That’s the father of my kids…It’s not like I didn’t love him, I did.”

Her 11-year-old son also gave remote testimony during the trial, telling the court he saw Jimenez point a gun at his mother and miss before striking her with the weapon. His account supported the defense’s claim that the situation had escalated violently before the shooting occurred.Still, jurors sided with prosecutors. One juror later told reporters, as quoted by the New York Post: “If he’s running away and she shot him in the back, doesn’t seem much like self-defense if he’s running away.”

The case had already drawn national attention when Link gave birth to a baby girl on June 19, 2024, while still in custody. She said she managed to inseminate herself using semen that DePaz had passed through the vent in a plastic wrapper, using yeast infection applicators as makeshift medical tools.

DePaz, who remains incarcerated on his own murder charge, described the conception as being ‘like the Virgin Mary,’ a comparison that sparked widespread online reactions. Many found the story unbelievable, while others called it a strange example of hope in confinement.

Dr. Fernando Akerman, medical director of the Fertility Center of Miami, commented that the pregnancy was ‘absolutely a case that is exceedingly unusual,’ estimating that the odds of success were ‘less than five percent.’ Even in controlled medical environments, such a scenario would be nearly impossible.

Pedro Jimenez was the victim at the center of Daisy Link’s murder caseCBS News

 

 

Link is scheduled to appear in court again on November 21 for her pre-sentencing hearing, where she faces several more years in prison — the same facility where her so-called ‘miracle baby’ story first began.Her sister, Crystal Barretto, spoke to CBS News following the verdict, expressing hope that the judge will consider the difficult circumstances that led to the tragedy and the time Daisy has already spent behind bars. She said: “I hope the judge takes into consideration all the evidence that was presented, the past domestic violence, history against Pedro and Daisy and the time she’s already served.”

“And also taken into consideration, her children and the new baby that was just born.”

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