And yes Florida …
A second arrest has been made in the case of a mother who allegedly went to a parody website thinking she was hiring a real contract killer to murder her child.
Jazmin Paez, 18, was arrested in July for allegedly soliciting the murder of her 3-year old son. As Law&Crime previously reported, she allegedly went to “Rent-a-Hitman” — a fake website — and put in a request for her young son to be murdered. Website owner Robert Innes, alarmed by the specificity of the apparently serious request, flagged police in Miami, Florida.
On Monday, Miami-Dade authorities arrested Gamaliel Soza, also 18, in connection with the alleged plot. According to an arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, a search of Paez’s cellphone revealed conversations between the two teenagers in which Soza appears to have indicated that her child was the only thing that stood between them.
“The kid is the problem, I hope you see that,” Soza reportedly said, according to the affidavit. “All I ever wanted, was to free you, I told you about the kid, you won’t do anything.”
“You do it, and I’ll think about coming back,” Soza also allegedly said in messages to Paez.
The affidavit implies that Paez tried to convince Soza that she did what he had apparently wanted.
“Ms. Jazmin Paez stated that she took her son to the woods and left him there to be eaten by bears or drown in the water,” the affidavit says. “[Soza] responded to her message by asking for a picture as proof.”
