Daisy Link, inset, charged with second-degree murder in the death of her husband, asked a Florida judge to be taken out of Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami and on to house arrest because she’s pregnant. Jail officials are investigating how she became pregnant. (Link: Miami-Dade corrections; Jail: Google Maps)
A Florida woman who is accused in the 2022 murder of her husband is now pregnant — reportedly by a male inmate who passed a glove with semen on it through an air conditioning vent at a Miami jail.
Daisy Link, charged with second-degree murder in the death of her husband, requested through her attorney on Wednesday to be taken out of jail and on to house arrest, according to local NBC affiliate WTVJ. A judge will make a ruling after hearing additional arguments, the TV station reported.
Link allegedly shot her husband in the leg on June 25, 2022, outside their Homestead home.
“I think I hit a major artery; you’ll be fine,” a video shows Link reportedly saying to the husband, who later died.
But the case took a bizarre turn when she somehow became pregnant while an inmate in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Link’s mother said in an interview WTVJ her daughter told her on Christmas Day that she was indeed carrying a baby. She’s currently about three months pregnant. Her mother, Josie Ramos, said she doesn’t buy the story about the semen-filled glove passing through the A/C vent. Link has told her lawyer, Marlene Montaner, that she was not sexually assaulted.
The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department is investigating how Link got pregnant.
“The care, safety, and rehabilitation of all those in our custody remains our top priority,” MDCR said in a statement to the media. “While there is no evidence of sexual battery against our inmate at this time, the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy are currently under active investigation.”
At the court hearing Wednesday, Link’s attorney argued she is not receiving the proper prenatal care while in jail. Better treatment options would be available if she were instead on house arrest, Montaner said.
That’s not the case, according to prosecutors and jail officials.
“She has the ability to seek a doctor every day. She has appointments. She’s transported to her appointments. She will see opticians,” Patricia Jones Cummings of Miami-Dade Corrections said at the hearing, according to WTVJ. “There are doctors inside the facility so if there are any issues regarding her care or concern.”
Prosecutors say she would be dangerous if she were to be released.
“That defendant is the one that put herself in this position, by committing second-degree murder and by trying to get herself pregnant inside jail,” said Ruben Scolavino, an assistant state attorney.
