MOM'S FRANTIC PLEA AFTER BABY EMMANUEL, 7 MONTHS, 'KIDNAPPED' DURING ATTACK OUTSIDE STORE: 'INCONSISTENCIES' EMERGE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Authorities search for a 7-month-old boy reported kidnapped outside a California store by his mother.
Rebecca Haro is outside her vehicle, changing her son's diaper, when she is assaulted from behind and knocked unconscious. When she regained consciousness, baby Emmanuel was gone.
San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies used helicopters and K-9s, and the family handed out flyers, looking for Emmanuel Haro, outside Big 5 Sporting Goods in Yucaipa.
As the parents plead for their son to be returned, police find inconsistencies in the mom's initial statement. Investigators say they are unable to rule out foul play. Police search the family home and extend the area in search of the missing 7-month-old.
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- Philip Dubé - Former Court-Appointed Counsel, Los Angeles County Public Defenders: Criminal & Constitutional Law, Forensics & Mental Health Advocacy
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.1 | Mommy's frantic pleas after baby Emmanuel, just seven months old, is kidnapped during an attack outside a sporting goods store. |
| 0:23.8 | Tonight, inconsistencies emerge. |
| 0:28.4 | That bothers me. |
| 0:30.7 | When LA law enforcement tells me there are inconsistencies, I'm just telling you right now, we got a problem. I'm Nancy Grace. This is |
| 0:41.3 | crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us. San Bernardino mom arrives at a sporting |
| 0:47.2 | goods store on a quiet Thursday evening with her infant son, Emmanuel. But minutes later, |
| 0:52.4 | a violent attack unfolds in the store parking lot and |
| 0:55.9 | baby Emmanuel is gone. What happened to baby Emmanuel just seven months old? Control room, I would |
| 1:05.7 | like to see some shots of this baby. If you know or think you know anything about the whereabouts of this |
| 1:13.1 | beautiful child, beautiful, how many people across our country would give their eye teeth to have |
| 1:23.8 | a baby, people struggling to have babies, people that want another baby, people that |
| 1:29.0 | attach to this baby and want to raise the baby, that pay tens of thousands of dollars. |
| 1:35.8 | Where is Emmanuel? If you know or think you know anything, 909 387-831-3-13. Repeat, 909-387-831-re-3. Repeat. |
| 1:45.2 | 909-387-8313. |
| 1:49.9 | As we like to say in the law, time is of the essence. |
| 1:55.1 | In other words, every minute counts. |
| 1:58.9 | Joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now, but first, listen to this. |
| 2:04.3 | 70 miles east of Los Angeles in Yucaypa, Rebecca Haro's stepson needs a new mouthpiece for football. |
| 2:09.8 | She heads to a sporting good store with seven-month-old Emmanuel. |
| 2:13.0 | Rebecca Haro realizes Baby Emmanuel dirty his diaper, and she prepares to change his diaper before going into the store. |
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