A seven-month-old infant, Emmanuel Haro, was reported missing after his mother, Rebecca Haro, said the baby was kidnapped outside a Big 5 Sporting Goods in Yucaipa on August 14. Rebecca Haro said she was assaulted and knocked unconscious while changing the infant; she appeared with a black eye in news footage. Sheriff investigators identified inconsistencies in her account and she declined further interviews. The Specialized Investigations Division said investigators could not rule out foul play in Emmanuel's disappearance. Reports showed father Jake Haro had a June 2023 felony child-cruelty conviction from a 2018 Hemet case involving a severely injured daughter who remains disabled.
Rebecca Haro stopped cooperating with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department after, while under questioning, investigators pointed out inconsistencies with the story she told about the August 14 kidnapping of baby Emmanuel Haro. She claimed that she had been assaulted and knocked unconscious by a male suspect outside a Big 5 Sporting Goods in Yucaipa, and that her infant had been kidnapped.
Haro had a black eye appearing before news cameras. A press release from the sheriff's office, issued on Saturday, noted the inconsistencies in Haro's story, and said she had declined to continue the interview with investigators. The SBSD's Specialized Investigations Division said earlier this week that they were "unable to rule out foul play in the disappearance of Emmanuel."
On Sunday, multiple news outlets reported that Jake Haro, the boy's father, had a June 2023 felony conviction for child cruelty stemming from a 2018 case out of Hemet, involving a daughter from a previous relationship. That girl, now seven years old, suffered severe trauma as a 10-week-old infant, with broken bones, and a brain hemmorhage, which doctors concluded were consistent with abuse. At age seven, she remains unable to speak or walk, and is blind, according to her adop
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