Mother’s Shocking Attempt to Hire Hitman Online: The Unbelievable Story Behind Her Prison Escape

A Florida woman accused of attempting to hire a hitman to murder her 3-year-old son through a satirical website will avoid jail time.

Jazmin Paez, aged 20, entered a guilty plea on Monday to charges of solicitation of first-degree murder, unlawful use of a communications device, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. The incident, which came to light in July 2023, involved Paez’s attempt to engage a hitman via the parody site “Rent-a-Hitman.” Alarmed by the detailed nature of the request, the site’s owner, Robert Innes, promptly alerted Miami authorities.

Under the terms of her plea deal, Paez will serve more than ten years on probation instead of serving time behind bars.

During the court proceedings, Assistant State Attorney Ayana Duncan highlighted Paez’s background as a teenage mother and suggested that the child might have been born from an incestuous relationship.

“The father was never a part of the child’s life,” Duncan noted. “However, the child’s paternal and maternal grandparents, who are also the biological parents of the defendant, have been actively involved in the upbringing of the child.”

Duncan described Paez as “ill-equipped” to take care of her child when she met another young teen and began a relationship without disclosing that her child existed. That teen apparently broke up with Paez when she revealed the truth, leaving her “devastated,” prosecutors said. That relationship, and its end, “may have been the catalyst or impetus for even trying to carry out this plot,” Duncan said, “because essentially it was ‘Get rid of the child if you want me back.’”

However, the prosecutor also pointed to Paez’s behavior while on pretrial release, during which time Paez graduated from high school and has since nearly completed her associate degree in science.

Duncan also noted that prosecutors did not give the defense everything it wanted — specifically, a penalty of just youthful offender sanctions.

“[T]he state said ‘No,’ because that wasn’t severe enough,” Duncan said. “So here’s the middle ground … maybe, just maybe, there might be a light at the end of the tunnel for this defendant.”

Paez will be under strict community control for two years, followed by 12 years of reporting probation, CourtTV reported. Special conditions of her sentence include receiving behavioral therapy, undergoing a mental health assessment and complying with any needed mental health treatment. Should she violate the terms of probation, she faces up to 40 years in state prison.

Paez’s parental rights were terminated for the minor child and she is not allowed to have any contact with them. She now lives with her biological father; the child has been legally adopted by Paez’s mother.