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In a lengthy jailhouse interview,

the father of seven-month-old Emmanuel Harrow 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.

Jake Harrow 32 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 41-year-old Rebecca Harrow were charged this week with killing Little Emmanuel and filing a false police report.

Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestron 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 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 14, 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 reported disappearance, she begged for help finding her son. But investigators soon found

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