According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Rebecca Haro said she was attacked in a Yucaipa parking lot Aug. 14 outside a Big 5 store while changing Emmanuel\u2019s diaper. But investigators said there were inconsistencies in her initial statement, and when they confronted her about those details, they said she stopped cooperating.<\/p>\n
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Seven-month-old Emmanuel Haro was reported missing Aug. 14, 2025, in Yucaipa. <\/p>\n
(San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department)<\/p>\n
Authorities arrested the parents at their Cabazon home a week after they reported their son missing.<\/p>\n
In the first weeks of the investigation, search teams scoured an isolated field in Moreno Valley. They were accompanied by Haro, who wore a jail jumpsuit. Authorities did not find the boy, officials said. The infant\u2019s remains have not been located. The San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department initially led the investigation, but charges against the parents were filed in Riverside County. <\/p>\n
When asked for an update on the search for baby Emmanuel\u2019s remains, the Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department is leading the investigation. But a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department referred all questions to the Riverside County district attorney\u2019s office. <\/p>\n
The Uvalde Foundation for Kids, a nonprofit that offered a cash reward in the early days of the search for Emmanuel, criticized the lack of updates from authorities regarding the case and the search for Emmanuel\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n
They said Haro\u2019s guilty plea is a \u201cnecessary step toward accountability\u201d but the case is also incomplete.<\/p>\n
The foundation\u2019s founder, Daniel Chapin, said in a statement, \u201cjustice for Emmanuel is incomplete until his remains are recovered.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cOur fight now centers on recovering Emmanuel and enacting \u2018Emmanuel\u2019s Law\u2019 to protect other children from falling through the cracks of a broken system,\u201d Chapin said.<\/p>\n
As the search for Emmanuel was underway, focus shifted from the mother to both parents after it came to light that Haro had a previous conviction for child abuse.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Haro and his then-wife were interviewed by Hemet police after their baby was examined at a local hospital, according to a police affidavit seeking an arrest warrant. The unidentified girl had a skull fracture, several healing fractures to her ribs, a brain hemorrhage, swelling in the neck and a healing tibia fracture in her leg.<\/p>\n
A doctor who examined the child told police that the girl had \u201cintracranial hemorrhage, brain injury, cervical spine injury and retinal hemorrhages\u201d and other injuries, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n
Haro told police that he accidentally dropped the baby into a center divider in their kitchen sink while giving her a bath, but the doctor said the injuries did not fit that narrative.<\/p>\n
The couple blamed each other, according to the officer\u2019s affidavit. In 2023, Haro was convicted of felony willful child endangerment and his then-wife was convicted of misdemeanor willful harm to a child, court records show.<\/p>\n
When Emmanuel\u2019s parents reported him missing, Riverside County authorities followed up and removed a 2-year-old child from their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of missing baby Emmanuel Haro has pleaded guilty to murder in Riverside County. Jake Haro pleaded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9101,9099,8825,3409,339,6314,8738,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,6316,1331,7171,8742,612,9100,2429],"class_list":{"0":"post-9425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-7-month-old-son-emmanuel","9":"tag-baby-emmanuel","10":"tag-boy","11":"tag-child","12":"tag-death","13":"tag-father","14":"tag-jake-haro","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-mother","23":"tag-murder","24":"tag-nov","25":"tag-rebecca-haro","26":"tag-riverside-county","27":"tag-several-week","28":"tag-thursday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","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=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}