Emmanuel Haro: Dad Says Wife ‘Innocent’ In Lengthy Jailhouse Interview | Crime Alert 6AM 08.29.25

The father of 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro said in a lengthy jailhouse interview denied prosecutors’ contention that the boy suffered long-term abuse before his presumed death and said his wife, who reported the infant missing, was innocent.

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Crime al Art hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm
Sidney Sumner. In a lengthy jailhouse interview, the father of
seven month old Emmanuel Harrow denied prosecutor's contention that the
boy suffered long term abuse before his presumed death, and
said his wife, who reported the infant missing, was innocent.

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Jake Harrow, thirty two, told a Southern California news Group
reporter that he has been completely cooperative with investigators, although
he declined to say whether he led them to the
Moreno Valley Badlands over the weekend, where he was seen
in a jailhouse jumpsuit as crews searched the area. Harrow
and forty one year old Rebecca Harrow were charged this

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week with killing little Emmanuel and filing a false police report.
Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said that investigators believed
that Emmanuel was severely abused over a period of time.
Hestron added both parents would have been aware of that abuse.
Harrow insisted that allegation was not true at all, but
declined to say what role he may have played in

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the little boy's disappearance. Prosecutors and investigators said that there
has been some level of cooperation from the parents, but
declined to provide details. Rebecca Harrow reported her son missing
on August fourteenth, claiming that someone she did not see
knocked her unconscious while she was changing Emmanuel's diaper and
took the boy. In dramatic and emotional interviews after the

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reported disappearance, she begged for help finding her son, but
investigators soon found inconsistencies in her stories, and a week later,
the parents were arrested. Formal murder charges were filed this week.
In his jailhouse interview, Jake Harrow also denied prosecutor's version
of his previous conviction for child abuse. He claimed that

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he accidentally dropped his newborn daughter on a sink divider
while bathing her. She didn't look injured, he said, although
she is now left blind with three percent brain function
from her severe injuries, which included fresh and healing rib fractures,
of fractured skull, and a leg fracture. Harro and his
then wife pleaded guilty, and he was sentenced to one

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hundred and eighty days in a work release program with
a suspended prison sentence, and was ordered to attend a
child abuse or treatment program. Harro said, somehow they magically
convinced me to take this plea deal. I was sick
of court. The judge knows I didn't do it. They
just railroaded me. I was the fall guy. District Attorney
Hestern said that there was no plea deal. Instead, Harro

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threw himself on the mercy of the court and pled
guilty in open court to avoid trial. The judge then
gave him a big break with the sentence over prosecutor's
strenuous objections. The DA called it an outrageous error in
judgment for this judge, commenting mister Harrow should have been
in prison at the time that this crime happened. Harro

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declined to provide any details about the current case, citing
advice from his lawyer. Haro said, I want to talk
about it, but I can't. I was told don't do
no press. Rebecca Harrow, too appears to be ignoring legal advice,
speaking to a reporter from jail over the weekend and
sticking solidly to her kidnapping story. Rebecca's husband says she

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is innocent. The media is killing her. She is a
beautiful woman. She loves her children. The Riverside Sheriff's Department
has declined to comment about Harrow's interview, saying the investigation
is very active and Wilby for quite some time. More
crime and justice news after this, A Florida mother went
on trial this week for the death of her toddler son.

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In twenty twenty one, Erica Dotson and her boyfriend Joshua
Manns both faced charges in the death of three year
old Jamison Nance, but a judge severed their cases earlier
this year. A date has not been set for Man's trial.
Dotson called nine one one on June eleventh, twenty twenty one,
saying that Mans had called her at work to say

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the little boy had possibly drowned. By the time she
got home, Man's was gone and little Jamison was dead
on the bathroom floor. Man's had fled to Georgia, where
he was later arrested. An autopsy revealed that the boy
had not drowned and instead had multiple healing and fresh injuries,
including a broken rib, brain swelling, and head injuries. Other

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injuries included a broken tooth pushed into his gums, a
cut on his jaw, a fractured arm, a ruptured esophagus,
and seven separate stab wounds, some fresh and some healing.
While Dotson's defense contend she knew nothing about Man's abuse
of the child, prosecutors say they found multiple messages between
the couple in the weeks prior to his death discussing

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the injuries and how to cover them up. The State
Department of Children and Family Services was also aware of
problems in the household, but apparently did not take any action.
According to an arrest affidavit, the boy broke his leg
in an unwitnessed event in twenty nineteen, and then again
in twenty twenty one, when the adults claimed he had
fallen off a curb. The second broken leg reported led

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DCF to learn of others so suspicious incidents, including injuries
to his face. The story was that the family had
been spending time by the pond and the child fell
rolled into or near the water and was attacked by
a duck. The text messages reveal more many concerning Man's
complaints that the boy was not using the toilet, which
would lead to punishment. Dotson would text her support for

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Man's punishment, even thanking him for always dealing with him.
For her she frequently referred to the Toddler as a
jerk or a The boy's biological father, James Nance, was
among the first witnesses at Dotson's trial. He testified that
a verbal custody arrangement they had fell apart once Dotson
began dating Manz, forcing him to take legal action just

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to see his son, but no agreement was ever reached
before the boy was murdered. For the latest crime and
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I'm Sidney Sumner.