Florida inmate who got pregnant in jail found guilty of second-degree murder of her baby daddy

Friday, October 17, 2025 - Daisy Link, the Florida inmate who gained attention after becoming pregnant while incarcerated in a Miami jail, has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Pedro Jimenez, the father of her two older children.

A jury took less than two hours to convict Link on October 16, 2025, in connection with the June 2022 shooting of Jimenez outside her Homestead home. Link, 30, and Jimenez had been in a nine-year relationship and shared two children at the time of his death. She remained emotionless as the verdict was read.

Jimenez died after being shot in the leg and bleeding out. Security camera footage showed Link walking away after the shot, reportedly mocking that she struck a “major artery.” Link testified that the shot was only meant as a warning to scare Jimenez away.

"That's the father of my kids," she said. "It's not like I didn't love him, I did.”

The defense team argued that Link acted in self-defense, portraying Jimenez as an abusive "coke head, wife-beating lunatic" who had attacked her days before his death and was threatening to break into her home to take their children. Link's 11-year-old son testified virtually, claiming he saw his father attacking Link and pistol-whipping her.

Prosecutor Alex Bergida described the relationship between Link and Jimenez as "toxic," with domestic violence from both parties.

One juror, Kenan Bowie, indicated that the evidence contradicted the self-defense claim, stating, "If he’s running away and she shot him in the back, doesn’t seem much like self-defense if he’s running away." He added that he believed Link "lied about" a lot from the moment she called 911.

Link made global headlines in December 2023 when she revealed she was pregnant while awaiting trial at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Link claimed she got pregnant using semen obtained from a fellow inmate, Joan DePaz, through a glove passed through a ventilation system. She stated that she had never met DePaz, who was housed on a floor above her and was also facing a murder charge, but spoke to him through the vents. 

The birth of Link's youngest child, who is in the care of relatives, was not brought up during the murder trial.

Following the verdict, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle thanked the jury for their examination of the evidence. A pre-sentencing hearing for Link is scheduled for November 21.