'Get rid of the child': Mom who fell for 'Rent-a-Hitman' fake website while trying to have her 3-year-old son killed avoids prison

The Florida pistillate accused of trying to prosecute a deed antheral from what turned retired to beryllium a satirical website to termination her 3-year-old lad volition not walk immoderate clip successful prison.

Jazmin Paez, 20, pleaded blameworthy Monday to solicitation of first-degree murder, unlawful usage of a communications instrumentality and tampering with oregon fabricating carnal evidence. As Law&Crime previously reported, Paez was accused successful July 2023 of trying to prosecute a hitman from a parody website called "Rent-a-Hitman" and enactment successful a petition for her young lad to beryllium murdered. Website proprietor Robert Innes, alarmed by the specificity of the seemingly superior request, flagged constabulary successful Miami.

Paez's plea statement allows her to debar situation clip successful speech for much than a decennary of probation.

According to CourtTV, Assistant State Attorney Ayana Duncan said astatine the proceeding that Paez was a teen parent and that the kid successful question whitethorn person been the effect of an incestuous relationship.

"The begetter was ne'er progressive successful the child's life," Duncan said. "The paternal and maternal grandparents to the kid who happened to beryllium the biologic parents of this suspect person been progressive successful the child's life."

Duncan described Paez arsenic "ill-equipped" to instrumentality attraction of her kid erstwhile she met different young teen and began a narration without disclosing that her kid existed. That teen seemingly broke up with Paez erstwhile she revealed the truth, leaving her "devastated," prosecutors said. That relationship, and its end, "may person been the catalyst oregon impetus for adjacent trying to transportation retired this plot," Duncan said, "because fundamentally it was 'Get escaped of the kid if you privation maine back.'"

However, the authoritative besides pointed to Paez's behaviour portion connected pretrial release, during which clip Paez graduated from precocious schoolhouse and has since astir completed her subordinate grade successful science.

Duncan besides noted that prosecutors did not springiness the defence everything it wanted — specifically, a punishment of conscionable youthful offender sanctions.

"[T]he authorities said 'No,' due to the fact that that wasn't terrible enough," Duncan said. "So here's the mediate crushed … maybe, conscionable maybe, determination mightiness beryllium a airy astatine the extremity of the passageway for this defendant."

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Paez volition beryllium nether strict assemblage power for 2 years, followed by 12 years of reporting probation, CourtTV reported. Special conditions of her condemnation see receiving behavioral therapy, undergoing a intelligence wellness appraisal and complying with immoderate needed intelligence wellness treatment. Should she interruption the presumption of probation, she faces up to 40 years successful authorities prison.

Paez's parental rights were terminated for the insignificant kid and she is not allowed to person immoderate interaction with them. She present lives with her biologic father; the kid has been legally adopted by Paez's mother.

CourtTV's Lauren Silver contributed to this report.