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Emmanuel Haro: Dad Says Wife ‘Innocent’ In Lengthy Jailhouse Interview | Crime Alert 6AM 08.29.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime al Art hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sumner. In a lengthy jailhouse interview, the father of
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  Speaker 1: seven month old Emmanuel Harrow denied prosecutor's contention that the
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  Speaker 1: boy suffered long term abuse before his presumed death, and
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  Speaker 1: said his wife, who reported the infant missing, was innocent.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Harrow, thirty two, told a Southern California news Group
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  Speaker 1: reporter that he has been completely cooperative with investigators, although
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  Speaker 1: he declined to say whether he led them to the
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  Speaker 1: Moreno Valley Badlands over the weekend, where he was seen
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  Speaker 1: in a jailhouse jumpsuit as crews searched the area. Harrow
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  Speaker 1: and forty one year old Rebecca Harrow were charged this
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  Speaker 1: week with killing little Emmanuel and filing a false police report.
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  Speaker 1: Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said that investigators believed
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  Speaker 1: that Emmanuel was severely abused over a period of time.
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  Speaker 1: Hestron added both parents would have been aware of that abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Harrow insisted that allegation was not true at all, but
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  Speaker 1: declined to say what role he may have played in
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  Speaker 1: the little boy's disappearance. Prosecutors and investigators said that there
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  Speaker 1: has been some level of cooperation from the parents, but
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  Speaker 1: declined to provide details. Rebecca Harrow reported her son missing
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  Speaker 1: on August fourteenth, claiming that someone she did not see
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  Speaker 1: knocked her unconscious while she was changing Emmanuel's diaper and
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  Speaker 1: took the boy. In dramatic and emotional interviews after the
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  Speaker 1: reported disappearance, she begged for help finding her son, but
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  Speaker 1: investigators soon found inconsistencies in her stories, and a week later,
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  Speaker 1: the parents were arrested. Formal murder charges were filed this week.
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  Speaker 1: In his jailhouse interview, Jake Harrow also denied prosecutor's version
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  Speaker 1: of his previous conviction for child abuse. He claimed that
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  Speaker 1: he accidentally dropped his newborn daughter on a sink divider
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  Speaker 1: while bathing her. She didn't look injured, he said, although
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  Speaker 1: she is now left blind with three percent brain function
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  Speaker 1: from her severe injuries, which included fresh and healing rib fractures,
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  Speaker 1: of fractured skull, and a leg fracture. Harro and his
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  Speaker 1: then wife pleaded guilty, and he was sentenced to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty days in a work release program with
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  Speaker 1: a suspended prison sentence, and was ordered to attend a
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  Speaker 1: child abuse or treatment program. Harro said, somehow they magically
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  Speaker 1: convinced me to take this plea deal. I was sick
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  Speaker 1: of court. The judge knows I didn't do it. They
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  Speaker 1: just railroaded me. I was the fall guy. District Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Hestern said that there was no plea deal. Instead, Harro
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  Speaker 1: threw himself on the mercy of the court and pled
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  Speaker 1: guilty in open court to avoid trial. The judge then
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  Speaker 1: gave him a big break with the sentence over prosecutor's
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  Speaker 1: strenuous objections. The DA called it an outrageous error in
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  Speaker 1: judgment for this judge, commenting mister Harrow should have been
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  Speaker 1: in prison at the time that this crime happened. Harro
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  Speaker 1: declined to provide any details about the current case, citing
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  Speaker 1: advice from his lawyer. Haro said, I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, but I can't. I was told don't do
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  Speaker 1: no press. Rebecca Harrow, too appears to be ignoring legal advice,
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  Speaker 1: speaking to a reporter from jail over the weekend and
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  Speaker 1: sticking solidly to her kidnapping story. Rebecca's husband says she
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  Speaker 1: is innocent. The media is killing her. She is a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful woman. She loves her children. The Riverside Sheriff's Department
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  Speaker 1: has declined to comment about Harrow's interview, saying the investigation
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  Speaker 1: is very active and Wilby for quite some time. More
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  Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this, A Florida mother went
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  Speaker 1: on trial this week for the death of her toddler son.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, Erica Dotson and her boyfriend Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Manns both faced charges in the death of three year
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  Speaker 1: old Jamison Nance, but a judge severed their cases earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year. A date has not been set for Man's trial.
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  Speaker 1: Dotson called nine one one on June eleventh, twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: saying that Mans had called her at work to say
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  Speaker 1: the little boy had possibly drowned. By the time she
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  Speaker 1: got home, Man's was gone and little Jamison was dead
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  Speaker 1: on the bathroom floor. Man's had fled to Georgia, where
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  Speaker 1: he was later arrested. An autopsy revealed that the boy
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  Speaker 1: had not drowned and instead had multiple healing and fresh injuries,
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  Speaker 1: including a broken rib, brain swelling, and head injuries. Other
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  Speaker 1: injuries included a broken tooth pushed into his gums, a
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  Speaker 1: cut on his jaw, a fractured arm, a ruptured esophagus,
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  Speaker 1: and seven separate stab wounds, some fresh and some healing.
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  Speaker 1: While Dotson's defense contend she knew nothing about Man's abuse
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  Speaker 1: of the child, prosecutors say they found multiple messages between
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  Speaker 1: the couple in the weeks prior to his death discussing
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  Speaker 1: the injuries and how to cover them up. The State
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  Speaker 1: Department of Children and Family Services was also aware of
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  Speaker 1: problems in the household, but apparently did not take any action.
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  Speaker 1: According to an arrest affidavit, the boy broke his leg
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  Speaker 1: in an unwitnessed event in twenty nineteen, and then again
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, when the adults claimed he had
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  Speaker 1: fallen off a curb. The second broken leg reported led
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  Speaker 1: DCF to learn of others so suspicious incidents, including injuries
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  Speaker 1: to his face. The story was that the family had
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  Speaker 1: been spending time by the pond and the child fell
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  Speaker 1: rolled into or near the water and was attacked by
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  Speaker 1: a duck. The text messages reveal more many concerning Man's
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  Speaker 1: complaints that the boy was not using the toilet, which
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  Speaker 1: would lead to punishment. Dotson would text her support for
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  Speaker 1: Man's punishment, even thanking him for always dealing with him.
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  Speaker 1: For her she frequently referred to the Toddler as a
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  Speaker 1: jerk or a The boy's biological father, James Nance, was
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  Speaker 1: among the first witnesses at Dotson's trial. He testified that
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  Speaker 1: a verbal custody arrangement they had fell apart once Dotson
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  Speaker 1: began dating Manz, forcing him to take legal action just
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  Speaker 1: to see his son, but no agreement was ever reached
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  Speaker 1: before the boy was murdered. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Sumner.