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Tribune News Service

A young Florida mother was arrested after she allegedly used a parody website to hire a hitman to kill her three-year-old son, police said.
Jazmin Paez, 18, is facing charges of solicitation of murder and using a communications device for an unlawful use.
She is accused of logging onto rentahitman.com in search of an assassin, going as far as to submit a photo of her toddler as well as his exact whereabouts, according to court documents obtained by NBC Miami.
She allegedly wanted the job done before the week’s end.

Investigators were alerted to Paez’s plot by the website owner, Robert Innes. He said that while he gets hundreds of hitman requests on a daily basis – many of them jokes – Paez’s solicitation stood out as too real.
“The ability to research names and addresses and verify the intended target lived in a particular address, that to me is a red flag,” Innes told NBC Miami. “If that information is corroborated, to me that is something that needs to be looked at and that’s why I referred it.”
According to authorities, the website founder created the platform to catch and curb those looking to hire a killer.
Paez eventually connected with an investigator through the site who was posing as a hitman. She offered to pay him US$3,000 to murder her three-year-old boy, CBS News reported.
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From there, authorities were able to track down the IP of the computer that was used to make the request and confirmed in belonged to Paez.
After speaking to the child’s grandmother, who confirmed he was the boy featured in the photos submitted to the website, authorities swooped in and arrested his mother.
She was booked into the Miami-Dade jail but has since been released on US$50,000 bond, NBC Miami reported.
Her son is currently safe and being cared for by family.


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Jazmin Paez, 18, allegedly tried to find an assassin on rentahitman.com – a parody website – even submitting her toddler’s photo and exact whereabouts
The site owner alerted investigators because unlike the many joke requests he receives, this request appeared to be real


Jazmin Paez, 18, allegedly tried to find an assassin on rentahitman.com – a parody website – even submitting her toddler’s photo and exact whereabouts.


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