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Paternity Questions Dog Miami Jail Birth
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2024, page 21
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Guard Misconduct,
Gender Discrimination -- Women.
Location:
Florida.
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 …
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