Jake Haro gets 25 years for solving child murder at Emmanuel

Jake Haro, the father of Emmany Emmanuel, who had driven shockingly and worked for the Internet army to kill, was sentenced to 25 years for killing his 7-month-old son.

Holo, 32, who had started the case, reversed course and pleaded guilty on Oct. 16 counts each of murder, by filing a false police report, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.

He and his wife, Rebecca Har, 41, reported their son was kidnapped after someone attacked him in a Yucaipa parking lot on the 14th.

On Monday, Haro received a 25-year-to-life sentence for murder and a 180-day sentence for making a false police report.

Because he committed the crime while sober, he must also serve the six-year, eight-month sentence he previously received for child abuse, prosecutors said.

Halo was convicted of aggravated battery in 2023 after his infant daughter was taken to the hospital in 2018 for drug addiction, drug addiction, and a police affidavit with an arrest warrant.

A judge later suspended that sentence — ruling that Riverside County Dist. Atty. Mike Hestrin said at a press conference on Aug. 27.

Hestrin said: “If that judge had done his job as he should have done, Emmanuel would be alive today. “That’s a shame and an outrage.”

Halo was credited with 551 days of time served and, because of the combined charges, will spend at least 30 years in prison before being eligible for parole.

Although Mr. Emmanuel’s body is yet to be found, prosecutors believe that multiple acts of torture and physical assault led to the boy’s death.

The mother ended up not guilty of pleading guilty to murder and filing a false police report. He is set to appear in court at the Felony Settlement Conference on Jan. 21, prosecutors said.

“The lies he told in this case only intensified the grief of Emmanuel’s death,” Hestrin said in a statement on Monday. “While today’s sentence represents a measure of accountability for Jake Haro, our office will continue to seek justice as his acquittal case moves forward.”

Prosecutors say the couple deliberately kidnapped the child. When the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department questioned the mother about the inconsistencies in her police report, the couple stopped cooperating.

After a week, they were arrested at their home in Cabocazon. In August, authorities removed another 2-year-old child who was kept in custody and hit a field in Moreno Valley accompanied by Har from prison.

Emmanuel’s remains are still to be found.

Times staff writer Nathan Solis contributed to this report.