Overview
- Riverside County Judge Gary Polk ordered seven years and two months for probation and related offenses to be served before a consecutive 25-years-to-life term for child abuse resulting in death.
- On Oct. 16, Haro pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, assault on a child under 8 causing death, and filing a false police report.
- Authorities have not recovered Emmanuel’s remains, which investigators believe were left after the child suffered sustained abuse.
- District Attorney Mike Hestrin criticized an earlier probation sentence in a prior child-abuse case involving another infant, saying that decision left Haro free and heightened risk to Emmanuel.
- Rebecca Haro has pleaded not guilty to murder and filing a false police report, remains held on $1 million bail, and is due back in court in January 2026.