Emmanuel Haro’s dad ‘should have been in prison’ after beating newborn daughter so severely she’s ‘permanently bedridden’

The evil dad who allegedly admitted murdering his baby son, Emmanuel Haro, previously beat a newborn daughter so severely she was “permanently bedridden” with cerebral palsy — but never served hard time.

Jake Haro, 32, and his wife, Rebecca Haro, 41, are currently being held on a $1 million bail as authorities continue to search for the remains of Emmanuel, their 7-month-old son believed to have suffered severe abuse before being dumped in a trash can.

It has since emerged that the dad was previously convicted of beating his 10-week-old daughter with a previous wife.

“The child’s name is Carolina. She’s still alive today, but she is permanently bedridden. She has permanent damage, cerebral palsy that is a result of long-term child abuse,” Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin revealed to reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.

Haro was charged with willful child cruelty after his helpless daughter was hospitalized with brain injuries, multiple bone fractures and bleeding in her eyes, according to court documents obtained by People.

“This is severe abuse for an infant,” Hestrin stressed.

“And so whatever you think of the criminal justice system and people need a break, someone who does that to a child belongs in prison, period.”

Haro pleaded guilty in 2023 — but the judge shockingly suspended his six-year prison sentence and instead gave him a slap on the wrist: six months in a work release program and 4 years of probation.
Hestrin slammed the judge’s decision and blamed him for Haro’s death.

“That decision was absolutely outrageous. Mr. Haro should have been in prison at the time that this crime happened,” he railed.

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

Jake Haro’s wife, Rebecca, initially told cops a stranger bashed her head and snatched the kid while she was changing his diaper outside a sporting goods store in San Bernardino on August 14.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested the Haros several days later and charged them with murder, citing “inconsistencies” in their stories.

Haro’s father was reportedly tricked by an undercover inmate into admitting that he killed the 7-month-old and dumped his body in a trash can.

Officials believe young Emmanuel may have been dead for weeks from his parents’ abuse before the bogus kidnapping report.