{"id":202819,"date":"2026-03-23T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202819\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:17:08","slug":"miami-mother-who-tried-to-hire-hitman-to-kill-her-3-year-old-avoids-jail-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202819\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami mother who tried to hire hitman to kill her 3-year-old avoids jail \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Miami mother was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to attempting to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-mother-tried-to-hire-hitman-on-parody-website-to-kill-3-year-old-son-police\/3074730\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-mother-tried-to-hire-hitman-on-parody-website-to-kill-3-year-old-son-police\/3074730\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> hire a hitman to kill her toddler son<\/a> through a parody website.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-year-old Jazmin Paez\u00a0admitted to submitting a request on rentahitman.com\u2014a satirical site\u2014to have her 3\u2011year\u2011old killed \u201cbefore the end of the week.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/071923-Jazmin-Paez.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Jazmin Paez\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMiami-Dade CorrectionsMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Jazmin Paez<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, Paez provided photos of the child and detailed the exact location where he could be found.<\/p>\n<p>The website\u2019s owner, Robert Innes, told NBC6 Miami that he receives hundreds of similar solicitations daily, most of which are clearly jokes or fake. Paez\u2019s request, however, stood out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to research names and addresses and verify the intended target lived at a particular address\u2014that to me is a red flag,\u201d Innes said. \u201cIf that information is corroborated, that is something that needs to be looked at, and that\u2019s why I referred it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paez was arrested in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>No jail time<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Paez pleaded guilty to soliciting first-degree murder, unlawful use of a communications device, and\u00a0tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange, prosecutors offered a withhold of adjudication, meaning she will not be legally classified as a convicted felon.<\/p>\n<p>Paez\u2014who faced up to 40 years in prison\u2014was instead sentenced to:<\/p>\n<p>Two years of community control<\/p>\n<p>12\u00a0 years of reporting probation<\/p>\n<p>Mandatory behavioral therapy\u00a0until no longer deemed necessary<\/p>\n<p>Her parental rights were previously terminated in dependency court. She is barred from contacting the child until her probation ends in 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys noted that the child has since been adopted by Paez\u2019s mother, while Paez currently lives with her biological father.<\/p>\n<p>In court, Paez stated that she has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami mother was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to attempting to hire a hitman to kill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1219,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-202819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}