The Riverside County District Attorney recently blasted a local judge for failing to lock up a man before he was arrested on suspicion of killing his 7-month-old son, but court records show the DA’s office also acquiesced to him walking free even after he allegedly violated his probation in a prior child abuse case.
In a press conference Wednesday, DA Mike Hestrin blamed baby Emmanuel Haro’s death on a judge’s decision in 2023 to suspend a 6-year prison sentence and grant probation to Emmanuel’s father, Jake Haro, after he pleaded guilty to abusing his 10-week-old daughter.
“That decision was absolutely outrageous,” Hestrin said. “Mr. Haro should have been in prison. … If that judge had done his job as he should have done, Emmanuel would be alive today.”…