The mother of 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro \u2014 who claimed her son had been kidnapped, kicking off a frantic search in the Inland Empire \u2014 now faces a lengthy prison sentence after admitting to charges related to her role in the infant\u2019s disappearance and death.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Renee Haro, 42, had initially denied the charges against her, but changed course Friday, pleading guilty to felony child abuse causing great bodily injury to a child under the age of 5 with an enhancement allegation of involuntary manslaughter. She was also found guilty of being an accessory after the fact, according to the Riverside County district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
As part of the plea agreement, Haro was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in state prison, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
\u201cRebecca Haro\u2019s plea and sentence today reflect her sins of parental omission,\u201d Asst. Dist. Atty. Brandon Smith said in a statement. \u201cHer choice not to intervene was a choice to allow, if not facilitate, Emmanuel\u2019s death. This defendant had a legal and moral responsibility as Emmanuel\u2019s mother. She catastrophically failed in that duty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haro\u2019s plea comes about six months after her husband, Jake Haro, 33, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder of his infant son, as well as a 180-day sentence for filing a false police report.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel\u2019s disappearance drew national attention after Haro and her husband told authorities their son had been kidnapped after someone attacked her in a Yucaipa parking lot on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n
Independent journalists, online sleuths and criminal case followers<\/a> traveled from across the country to track developments on the missing child\u2019s case.<\/p>\n But a week after reporting the kidnapping, investigators arrested the couple at their Cabazon home after determining that Emmanuel was most likely dead and the couple had faked their story<\/a>.<\/p>\n Authorities also removed another 2-year-old child from the couple\u2019s custody<\/a> and scoured a field in Moreno Valley,<\/a> accompanied by Jake Haro in a jail jumpsuit. <\/p>\n Emmanuel\u2019s body has still not been found.<\/p>\n Investigators paid special attention to the boy\u2019s father, who had previously been convicted of felony willful child endangerment after his baby daughter was taken to a hospital in 2018 with a skull fracture, several healing fractures to her ribs, a brain hemorrhage, swelling in the neck and a healing tibia fracture in her leg, according to a police affidavit for an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n Prosecutors believe that multiple acts of abuse and physical assault led to Emmanuel\u2019s death.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the evidence established that Jake Haro was the person who inflicted the fatal injuries,\u201d prosecutors wrote in a statement, \u201cthe prosecution alleged that Rebecca Haro became aware of Emmanuel\u2019s deteriorating condition and signs of ongoing abuse, failed to protect him or obtain necessary medical care, and later participated in efforts to conceal the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro \u2014 who claimed her son had been kidnapped, kicking off a frantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6577,9099,3409,2798,339,26902,8741,139742,4264,3816,48,52,51,47,50,49,3906,6316,46035,7214,8742],"class_list":["post-338935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-authority","tag-baby-emmanuel","tag-child","tag-couple","tag-death","tag-disappearance","tag-emmanuel","tag-haro","tag-husband","tag-investigator","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-month","tag-mother","tag-plea-agreement","tag-prosecutor","tag-rebecca-haro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}