San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators on Sunday, Aug. 17, searched the house of the mother and father of the infant whose mom reported the toddler kidnapped as new particulars emerged Monday concerning the father’s youngster cruelty conviction in 2023.
Sheriff’s spokeswoman Mara Rodriguez confirmed Monday that investigators carried out the search. She declined to say what they have been searching for or what they recovered, citing the continuing investigation. K9s have been used all through the search, she mentioned, whereas declining to say whether or not cadaver canine have been deployed on the property.
“Investigators are continuing the search for Emmanuel around the clock and following up on all leads and investigative discoveries,” Rodriguez mentioned.
Rebecca and Jacob Haro haven’t been arrested or charged. It was additionally unclear whether or not they had retained an legal professional.
Emmanuel’s grandmother, Mary Beushausen, informed KTLA/5 that the couple wouldn’t harm their son. Beushausen informed KTLA that the Sheriff’s Division requested Rebecca Haro to take a lie detector take a look at and that her husband refused to try this till after they employed an legal professional. The grandmother additionally mentioned the mom had turned off her cellphone as a result of she had obtained dying threats. Jake Haro additionally was not answering his cellphone, Beushausen mentioned.
These particulars couldn’t be independently confirmed on Monday.
Haro initially informed investigators that she was altering the infant’s diaper subsequent to her car on Thursday exterior a Huge 5 retailer in Yucaipa when she was assaulted and knocked unconscious by an unknown man. When she awoke, the kid was gone, she mentioned.
Deputies searched unsuccessfully with K9s, in response to a sheriff’s assertion.
Rebecca Haro then pleaded in media interviews for the kidnapper to return Emmanuel.
Investigators interviewed a number of folks, however when confronted with inconsistencies in her preliminary account, the mom declined to proceed with the interview, sheriff’s officers mentioned.
The nationwide Uvalde Basis for Youngsters then known as off its impartial seek for the boy, in addition to a $5,000 reward supply for data on the lacking youngster — lower than a day after launching the hassle.
The house of Rebecca Haro, mom of 7-month-old boy, Emmanuel Haro. She reported her youngster kidnapped on Aug. 14th in Yucaipa, the household has since stopped speaking with detectives in Cabazon on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (Picture by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators have been nonetheless looking for 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro on Aug. 18, 2025, after his mom had reported him being kidnapped after she was assaulted on Aug. 14. The mother and father’ Cabazon dwelling was searched by investigators on Aug. 17. (Courtesy of San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division)
Reporters wait exterior the house of Rebecca Haro, mom of 7-month-old boy, Emmanuel Haro. She reported her youngster kidnapped on Aug. 14th in Yucaipa, the household has since stopped speaking with detectives in Cabazon on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (Picture by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
The house of Rebecca Haro, mom of 7-month-old boy, Emmanuel Haro. She reported her youngster kidnapped on Aug. 14th in Yucaipa, the household has since stopped speaking with detectives in Cabazon on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (Picture by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
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The house of Rebecca Haro, mom of 7-month-old boy, Emmanuel Haro. She reported her youngster kidnapped on Aug. 14th in Yucaipa, the household has since stopped speaking with detectives in Cabazon on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (Picture by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
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The search comes nearly 4 years after Jake Haro and an apparently completely different partner, Vanessa Haro, have been charged with willful youngster cruelty in Riverside County after an toddler was discovered to have contemporary and therapeutic wounds that positioned it in crucial situation.
In keeping with an affidavit written by a Hemet police officer to acquire an arrest warrant, officers investigated a report {that a} 10-week-old woman had been admitted to Hemet Valley Hospital on Oct. 13, 2018, for remedy of damaged bones.
Vanessa Haro, often known as Vanessa Avina, in response to the doc, informed officers that she had picked up Jake Haro from work and dropped him off at dwelling on Oct. 12 earlier than driving to Beaumont to select up her eldest daughter from college. She returned about an hour later and tried to nurse the toddler, however she wouldn’t drink. Vanessa took the infant to a hospital.
Jake Haro informed investigators that after Vanessa dropped him off, he took the infant’s temperature and located it to be 99-100 levels. He bathed the infant and by chance dropped it chest-first on the divider of the twin-basin sink. He couldn’t detect any accidents.
That night time, Vanessa awakened Jake and requested him to really feel the infant’s again. He felt one thing “crackle,” the affidavit says. Jake informed the investigator that he didn’t really feel the crackle after bathing the toddler.
Vanessa later declined to reply the investigator’s questions with out an legal professional current.
Medical doctors at Loma Linda College Medical Heart informed the officer who wrote the affidavit that the infant had an “acute” fractured rib, “healing” fractures of six ribs, a cranium fracture, a mind hemorrhage, swelling of the neck and a “healing” fractured leg bone.
“The combination of the above findings in a pre-mobile infant, in the absence of a plausible history of significant trauma to explain the injuries, is indicative of abuse (sic) head trauma, child physical abuse and nutritional neglect,” the officer wrote, quoting a physician.
Jake Haro informed the officer that when he went dwelling after visiting the hospital, his sister opened the online browser on his iPad and located a seek for “How to feed a baby with broken ribs.” Jake informed the officer that he didn’t use the iPad on the time of that search, which was carried out earlier than the hospital go to.
Because the investigation continued, the officer wrote, Jake Haro blamed the accidents on his spouse.
However each have been charged with willful youngster cruelty on Oct. 5, 2021. They pleaded responsible to the cost on June 8, 2023.
Jake Haro was sentenced to 180 days within the sheriff’s work-release program, given a suspended four-year jail sentence and was ordered to attend a baby abuser remedy program. Vanessa Haro was sentenced to 120 days within the work-release program and ordered to attend the kid abuser remedy program.
Shortly after the infant was admitted to the hospital, Jake Haro filed a request for a home violence restraining order in opposition to his spouse, Household Regulation information present. That case was ultimately dismissed.
Jake Haro is due in courtroom on Sept. 2 to reply to a different cost: being a felon or addict in possession of a firearm.
Initially Revealed: August 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM PDT
