7Investigates has obtained newly released videos and jail phone calls in the case of a Miami-Dade inmate who got pregnant behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the first time, we are seeing video of a pregnant Daisy Link and her baby’s father Joan Depaz — behind bars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miami-Dade Corrections officer: “What happened, tell me exactly what happened?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Depaz: “Well\u2026”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was Christmas Eve, 2023. Police were called to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center to find out how Link became pregnant while she was an inmate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Body camera video shows an officer was able to rule out rape after she asked Link if the pregnancy was planned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miami-Dade Police officer: “You wanted it to happen, what you did? If it’s OK with you, that’s fine. I just came here to make sure that you’re OK.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daisy Link: “Yeah, I’m fine.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a separate interview, Depaz was asked to explain how he got Link pregnant, even though they were never physically together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Depaz: “We was talking, you know, back and forth and[\u2026]” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officer: “How were you talking to her?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Depaz: “Nah, through the vent.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officer: “Through the vent?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Depaz: “Yeah.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officer: “OK.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Depaz: “Through the vents. Anybody would say I’m crazy, ‘Oh, you’re talking to the vent.’ Yeah.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then about a minute into the video, the audio on the bodycam is muted and a black box is put over Depaz’s face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Based on his hand movements, Depaz appears to be showing the officer the strange way they conceived this baby girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daisy Link: “She’s a miracle baby. She’s a blessing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to new videos, 7Investigates also obtained jail phone calls — including one where Link and Depaz discuss their plan to get pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Depaz in jail phone call: “You gonna have my baby?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daisy Link (in phone call): “Yeah.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joan Depaz (in phone call): “You wanna do it for real?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daisy Link (in phone call): “Yeah, send it to me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Depaz says he sent his semen through an A\/C vent connecting their cells — using a makeshift line made out of mattress string. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their conversation backs up what the pair told 7News in jailhouse interviews last year.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Joan Depaz: “I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day, like five times a day for, like, a month straight.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link: “I had placed it inside of the yeast infection applicators. From there, yeah, I administered it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than a month after that first call — Link and Depaz spoke again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Joan Depaz (in phone call): “You think that [expletive] worked?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link (in phone call): “I don’t know. It probably could, I’m telling you, I would have, I’m supposed to have my period.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then by December, Link called her mom to break the unbelievable news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link (in phone call): “I’m under 24-hour lockdown because I’m pregnant.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Link’s mother (in phone call): “You’re full of [expletive.]”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link (in phone call): “I swear to God.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Link’s mother (in phone call): “You’re full of [expletive.] This is shocking.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shocking, because Link has been locked up with no bond since 2022 awaiting trial for murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the call, Link told her mom she got pregnant to get out of jail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Link’s mother (in phone call): “Daisy, how could you?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link (in phone call): “What do you mean? I’m gonna sue ’em and get out. Do you know how much I can sue them for? This was all planned. I can get out now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n That never happened. Link is still at TGK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Depaz was transferred to another jail and is now in state prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In July, Link told us she was punished for talking to 7Investigates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link: “Well right now, I’m in unit 2-2, it’s a psychiatric unit. I’m basically just sitting in a room with a mattress and a blanket 24 hours a day with the lights that don’t shut off.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Link believes it was retaliation for saying this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link: “They should actually thank me. I found a huge breach in their security. I haven’t gotten a ‘thank you’ yet.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link: “They’re telling me that I basically made a mockery of corrections. And because of that, they’re mad. That this was inevitable to come.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heather: “Like a mockery in what way?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daisy Link: “That they didn’t know what they were doing. That they basically allowed all of this to happen.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The director of Miami-Dade Corrections — Sherea Green — has refused several interview requests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her department’s investigation into Link’s pregnancy<\/a> found “insufficient evidence to substantiate staff misconduct.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it left many questions — including about the flow of contraband in the eighth largest jail system in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Heather Walker, 7News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, a judge denied Daisy Link’s motion to have her second-degree murder case dismissed based on a self-defense claim. Her trial could begin at the end of the month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n CONTACT 7 INVESTIGATES:<\/strong>
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