Mother who said baby was kidnapped in Yucaipa stops cooperating with detectives – San Bernardino Sun

Authorities searching for a missing infant in Yucaipa said Saturday the mother is no longer cooperating after investigators found inconsistencies in her story that the child was kidnapped outside a store.

The national Uvalde Foundation for Kids also called off its independent search for the 7-month-old boy, Emmanual Haro, as well as a $5,000 reward offer for information on the missing child — less than a day after launching the effort.

The child’s mother, Rebecca Haro of Cabazon, initially told San Bernardino County Sheriff’s investigators that she was changing the baby’s diaper by her vehicle Thursday night, Aug. 14 outside a Yucaipa store when she was assaulted and knocked unconscious by an unknown male. When she awoke, the child was gone, she said.

Deputies were dispatched at 7:47 p.m. and searched unsuccessfully with K9 units from San Bernardino County and Riverside County sheriff’s departments for the child, according to a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s statement.

Investigators interviewed multiple people, including the child’s mother and his father Jake Haro, but when confronted with inconsistencies in her initial story the mother declined to continue with the interview, sheriff’s officials said.