Emmanuel Haro, a 7-month-old, vanished from a Yucaipa parking lot after his mother, Rebecca Haro, reported being attacked while changing his diaper and said she was knocked unconscious. Rebecca said she awoke to find Emmanuel missing. San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department reported alleged inconsistencies in her statements and claimed she stopped cooperating, but the parents' attorney said both parents made themselves available and provided requested electronics and passwords. Rebecca did not take a polygraph, which attorneys said is not required or admissible in court. Investigators showed grainy surveillance video depicting a figure in black falling then rising, and authorities seized electronic devices.
Despite statements from law enforcement, the parents of a missing 7-month-old boy last seen in Yucaipa are cooperating with the investigation, an attorney for the baby's father said Tuesday, Aug. 19. Emmanuel Haro vanished from a parking lot after his mother, Rebecca Haro, reported she was attacked while changing her son's diaper by her vehicle on Aug. 14. She told investigators she was knocked unconscious, and when she awoke, Emmanuel was gone.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department previously said that after being confronted with inconsistencies in her statements, Rebecca Haro stopped cooperating with investigators. Vincent Hughes, an attorney representing Emmanuel's father, Jake Haro in a separate case, disputed that claim. Mom and dad have made themselves available to law enforcement throughout the investigation, Hughes said. The one thing mom did not do was submit to a lie detector test.
The request for the tests came after investigators showed the couple surveillance video from the night Emmanuel disappeared, Hughes said. He has not seen the footage himself but said Jake Haro described it as grainy video of the parking lot, showing the Big 5 sign and more than one car door open. A figure in all black appears to fall to the ground, then get up again, Hughes said.
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