A chilling simulation has surfaced, illustrating the improbable scenario of two inmates housed in separate cells who somehow managed to conceive a child without ever meeting face-to-face.
This story, though hard to believe, is indeed based on real events.
Currently incarcerated at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, Daisy Link was convicted of second-degree murder in 2022.
Despite being confined, Link managed to have a child with another inmate, Joan Depaz, who also faces murder charges.
The simulation, which narrates this unlikely tale, was first shared by @vividpoet_ and has since gained traction on social media.
Link and Depaz began communicating through air conditioning vents in their cells, engaging in nightly conversations that helped pass the time.
These interactions progressed to exchanging letters, using strings crafted from bedsheets to send messages.
A viral simulation elaborated on their desire to have a child, despite the obstacle of not being allowed in the same space.
Link explained to WSVN that one could ‘knock’ on the vents to ‘hear the people from different floors’, and that after prolonged isolation, it felt as if she and Depaz were ‘in the same room’.
Depaz expressed his long-standing desire to have a child, realizing that his charges would prevent this for a significant time. He inquired if Link was willing to attempt it.
Their method of conception was unconventional, to say the least.
Depaz would deposit his semen in a piece of plastic ‘every day like five times a day for like a month straight,’ with Link mentioning he would ‘roll it up almost like a cigarette’ and attach it to a line threaded through the vent.
Link utilized ‘yeast infection applicators’ to ‘administer’ the semen, as she recounted to WSVN.
Remarkably, despite never having physical contact, Link became pregnant.
Though the scenario seems implausible, Dr. Fernando Akerman, medical director of the Fertility Center of Miami, affirmed that pregnancy under such conditions is possible.
“We estimate that probably their chances were less than five percent, but that is not to say that the chances were zero. So this is absolutely a case that is exceedingly unusual. To my knowledge I’ve never heard or read anything like this,” Dr. Akerman commented.