Jazmin Paez pleaded guilty after police said she used a parody website in 2023 to seek the killing of her 3-year-old son.

MIAMI, Fla. — A South Florida woman who admitted trying to hire a killer through a fake murder-for-hire website to have her 3-year-old son killed was spared prison Monday, receiving two years of community control and 12 years of probation instead.

Jazmin Paez, now 20, pleaded guilty to solicitation of first-degree murder, unlawful use of a communications device and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. The plea closed a case that drew national attention in 2023 because it began on rentahitman.com, a satirical site that its owner said usually attracts hoaxes, not detailed requests involving a real child, a photo, an address and a promised payment.

The case began on July 18, 2023, when investigators said Paez submitted an online request asking that her son be killed by the end of that week. Police said the form included a recent photo of the boy, the address where he could be found and her phone number. The request also included language saying the child should be taken “far, far, far away” and possibly killed as soon as possible. Robert Innes, the site’s owner, later said the level of detail set this one apart. “That to me is a red flag,” Innes said after he turned the tip over to Miami-Dade police.

Detectives traced the submission through the IP address and phone number listed in the request, according to early police reporting. When officers went to the address, they found the child safe with his grandmother, who told them Paez had moved out and was living with her father. Investigators said the grandmother recognized the image posted to the site because she had taken the photo the day before while picking the child up from school and had sent it to her daughter. A detective then posed as a hitman, contacted the number attached to the request and, police said, got Paez to confirm the plan and agree to pay $3,000. Authorities later said officers found the website still open in her browser and uncovered a text message in which she told a man that “it’s being taken care of,” referring to her son. Her fuller statement to police was not made public.

By the time the case reached sentencing, prosecutors offered a fuller picture of the family history behind it without disputing the seriousness of the conduct. Assistant State Attorney Ayana Duncan told the court that Paez had been a teen mother and that the child may have been born from an incestuous relationship. Duncan said the child’s father was never involved and that the same grandparents were both the child’s maternal and paternal grandparents. She also said Paez was “ill-equipped” to care for the boy and became distraught after a teenage relationship ended when she disclosed that she had a child. Prosecutors described that breakup as a possible trigger, not a legal excuse. Records from the original case also showed a dependency court had already moved quickly to protect the child after the arrest.

The sentence imposed Monday kept Paez out of prison but left her under long-term court control. She received two years of strict community control, followed by 12 years of reporting probation. Special conditions include behavioral therapy, a mental health evaluation and any treatment recommended from that review. NBC 6 reported that Paez told the court she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Prosecutors said they rejected a lighter youthful-offender outcome and settled on what Duncan described as a middle ground. If Paez violates probation, she could face up to 40 years in state prison. She also received a withhold of adjudication, meaning she will not be formally classified as a convicted felon under the terms reported from court.

The child’s legal status had already changed before the plea. Paez’s parental rights were terminated, and the boy was later adopted by Paez’s mother, according to sentencing coverage. That left the child with the same side of the family that first sheltered him when police arrived in 2023. In the early days of the case, Paez’s father publicly defended her, saying in Spanish that his daughter was “not a monster” and describing a history of medical problems, surgeries and bullying. Those remarks did not alter the prosecution, but they added another layer to a case that mixed family trauma, criminal intent and child protection. The child, a judge was told in dependency court soon after the arrest, was “doing great.”

Paez is now barred from contact with her son through the end of her supervision, which local reporting said runs into 2040. The case stands closed on the criminal side unless she violates probation or new proceedings are opened over compliance with treatment and supervision terms.

Author note: Last updated April 15, 2026.