A subdued Rebecca Haro sat hunched over in a seventh-floor inmate visiting area of the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on Sunday morning and said she wished she were out searching for her missing 7-month-old son, Emmanuel.
“I will not give up. I will not give up on my baby,” Haro said Aug. 24 in a jailhouse interview with a Southern California News Group reporter, during which she maintained that Emmanuel was kidnapped.
Law enforcement authorities believe the baby is dead, and on Friday arrested Haro and her husband Jake Haro at their home in Cabazon on suspicion of murder .
Haro, 41, sat separated from a reporter by a glass window and communicated through a telephone hookup on Sunday. She wore a blue jail jumpsuit. Her hair, up in a bun as she was led away in handcuffs F