John Jefferson
Inset: Daisy Link (Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she became pregnant. (Google Maps)
A Florida woman who became pregnant while an inmate at a Miami jail gave birth to the girl in June, but her family is still awaiting answers as to how the pregnancy happened.
Daisy Link, 29, is charged with second-degree murder after she allegedly killed her husband in 2022. But she told her family in a phone call last Christmas that she became pregnant while an inmate in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. She reportedly attributed the pregnancy to a male inmate who passed a glove with semen on it through an air conditioning vent.
Link then told her family that she was sexually assaulted but later told her lawyer that was not the case.
Her sister Crystal Bareto told Miami ABC affiliate WVSN that Link gave birth to the girl in June.
“The baby was born June 19th and 48 hours [later], they handed the baby over to an inmate’s mother,” she said. “We don’t even know if that’s the real family.”
The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department is investigating. It previously said there was no evidence of a sexual assault. WSVN reports that the investigation is ongoing.
Bareto said she believes an outside agency needs to investigate the jail, calling the entire ordeal “absurd.”
“We never really got the real, true story about what happened to her in there,” Bareto told WVSN. “And I feel like as time passed, the investigation, the story of what happened to my sister has been swept under the rug.”
She said she feels the agency is dragging its feet on the investigation because it could result in discipline for its employees, which may include firings.
Link allegedly shot her husband in the leg outside their Homestead home on June 25, 2022.
“I think I hit a major artery; you’ll be fine,” a video reportedly shows Link saying to the husband, who later died.
Court records show she also is accused of battery on a corrections officer stemming from an incident last month. She has a court date scheduled for Thursday.
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