Paternity Questions Dog Miami Jail Birth
A South Florida woman gave birth to a baby girl at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK) on June 19, 2024. But it remained unclear how Daisy Link, 29, became pregnant or who the child’s father is.
Link is accused of fatally shooting her domestic partner outside their Homestead residence on June 25, 2022. After firing a bullet into his leg, she was captured on surveillance video telling him, “I think I hit a major artery. You’ll be fine.” He died soon thereafter, though, and she was charged with second-degree murder. She has been held since without bond at TGK.
The detainee allegedly reported her suspected pregnancy to staff in November 2023, but it wasn’t confirmed until the following month, Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Public Affairs Manager Juan Diasgranados said. He added there was “no evidence of sexual battery,” though “circumstances surrounding the pregnancy”—including how it happened and the identity of the child’s father—“are currently under active investigation.”
Link confirmed that she was not sexually assaulted, said her attorney Marlene Montaner. She reportedly impregnated herself with semen passed inside a glove through an air conditioning vent by an unnamed 23-year-old fellow detainee, who was removed from the jail. But Link’s mother, Josie Ramos, said this was something guards ordered her daughter to say, calling the story “ludicrous and ridiculous.”
In August 2024, two months after the child’s birth, custody was turned over to the suspected father’s family, according to Crystal Bareto, Link’s sister. “We don’t even know if that’s the real family,” she added, calling it “horrifying” that Link “ended up pregnant under [jailers’] watch.”
“People are hiding things,” Bareto said.
Sources: Slate, WSVN, WTVJ
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