The woman who made headlines after it was revealed she got pregnant while behind bars has learned her fate for the murder charge that saw her locked up.
The case of 30-year-old Daisy Link shocked the world last year when she claimed to have gotten pregnant without ever meet her baby’s father. Fellow inmate Joan DePaz turned out to be the man responsible for the conception, though it was the rather unique method of insemination that people were most interested in.
Namely, Link claimed to have conceived her baby through the use of an air vent at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade, where the pair were housed.
Having struck up a rapport with one another by talking through the cells’ shared ventilation system, the 30-year-old said she and DePaz had conceived a baby after DePaz passed his semen through a vent in a glove.
Link had explained that inmates could ‘knock’ on the vents and ‘hear the people from different floors’, adding that ‘being in isolation for so long you begin to spend hours and hours talking’ until ‘it feels like you’re in the same room’.
Link gave birth to a girl on June 19, 2024.
Nevertheless, she was this week found guilty of second-degree murder for shooting dead her partner, Pedro Jimenez, in 2022.
Link had been awaiting trial for three years, with jurors taking less than two hours to determine her guilt.
Prosecutors alleged that Link had shot Jimenez in the leg outside her home and left him to bleed to death. Her defense countered that the incident was self-defense after years of being subjected to domestic violence.
It was also argued that Link had been beaten and threatened in the days leading up to the fatal shooting. Link’s 11-year-old testified remotely, claiming to have witnessed Jimenez aiming a gun at his mother as well as pistol-whipping her.
“He (Jimenez) pointed the gun at my mom and he fired a shot but he missed,” the boy told the court, as per CBS News Miami.
“He was hitting her with the bottom of the gun.”
That wasn’t enough to sway jurors in Link’s favor, however, with the New York Post citing one juror as having said: “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 father of Link’s new child, DePaz, is in prison on his own murder charge. He labeled the conception ‘like the Virgin Mary’.
Link, meanwhile, now faces years in prison when she returns to court on November 21 for pre-sentencing.
Speaking to CBS News, Link’s sister, Crystal Barretto, revealed her hope that the judge might show a degree of leniency.
“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,” Barretto said.
“And also taken into consideration, her children and the new baby that was just born.”
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