Awww. Isn’t that romantic? Two inmates charged with murderer managed to conceive a love child while in prison without ever meeting each other face to face.
Daisy Link, 29, is charged with second-degree murder after being accused of killing her boyfriend in 2022. Joan Depaz, 23, (pronounced “JO-an”] is facing trial for first-degree murder. Both are being held at Metrowest Detention Center in Miami.
Link began talking to Depaz through the connecting vents in their cells. They fell in love. Then the love birds decided to have a child together. So Depaz deposited his semen in Saran Wrap about five times a day for about a month. The packages were pulled through the vents by Link using bedding material. Link inserted the fresh sperm using a yeast infection applicator. Eventually…success! She became pregnant, and now Depaz’s mother is raising the baby girl born in June.
Officials are conducting an internal affairs investigation. Yes, I’d agree that this is prudent.
What a lucky kid. She gets to grow up with the prospect of having both parents locked up until she’s out of high school, after being raised by a family that already spawned one killer, and is stuck with some problematic material from the gene pool. Memories of “It’s Alive” are creeping through my fertile but twisted brain.
Still, you never know: where there is life, there is hope. Some remarkable people have been born under less promising conditions. I think.
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Pointer: JutGory
Ethics Alarms 
“JO-an” Depaz deposited semen? There’s one for the Museum Of The Hard To Believe!
PWS
Many murderers can’t spell. I assume his name is “Johan” or something similar
A few years ago I had a student named Jonathan, pronounced Joe-Nathan. Nod and smile…
Love it!
If I remember correctly, Joan is the form of John in parts of Spain and France and is pronounced closer to ju-an, with the j sounding the same as in jeep.
Yes, it might turn out well for the child, but that is moral luck. It is unethical (and Ick!) to intentionally contrive to bring a child into the world under such circumstances. It is a selfish act on the part of the parents and no responsible parent would do this.
But, then, they aren’t responsible for the child; they dropped her off with a relative. And, heck, they are convicted murderers. Who would expect them to make responsible choices.
-Jut
Immaculate. I hope the child never gets to read these stories and actually turns out to be a net positive for society. Good luck, little one.
Thank you. As an adopted child who has zero control over (or responsibility for) how I came to be in the world, I appreciate this response.
The inmates ought not to have been “fooling around” in the manner described, but the child certainly isn’t to blame for the unusual manner of her conception. Adoption into a non-related family might be the best option for the child going forward. And perhaps sterilization for the biomom & biodad, too!
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough” is no longer good law.
And, a purpose in the foster system is to keep children with relatives, if possible.
The child is probably stuck.
-Jut
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough” is no longer good law”
As Congress proves every day.
Saran Wrap! What CAN’T it do?
Of course it’s unethical to continue to bring a child into the world, knowing you won’t have the ability to parent it and provide for its needs.
But on another note, was anybody forced to share a cell with the alleged murderer who was compulsively jerking it five times a day (oh, to be 23 again!) for a month?
Exactly. Five times a day? Even at 18 that’s simply incomprehensible and likely medically impossible. Prison braggadocio? The man? The myth? How many other children has he fathered?
Was this a co-ed prison?
Must be. It’s a lock-up or jai, since they are waiting for trial and not convicted yet. I didn’t know those were co-ed either.
Or it could be that one individual was a biological male IDing as female, who hadn’t yet taken enough hormones to stop generating the contents within the Saran Wrap.
“Ick” or Ethics?
Can’t it be both?
It should be! The DIY artificial insemination is “ick,” but the baby being born alive and fostered (even if by a grandparent) is ethics.
Sure. Happens a lot.
Let us know in about 18 years if the kid starts applying to art schools. Not necessarily problematic if she does – just make sure the schools know not to fail her out.