Campaign for Emmanuel's Law

[Sillybilly]

Emmanuel Haro, died when he was 7 months old. It is alleged he was murdered by his parents Rebecca and Jake Haro, in Yucaipa, California in August of 2025.

Both Rebecca and Jake Haro have now been charged with malice murder in Emmanuel’s death.

Jake Haro had previously been convicted of severe physical abuse of Emmanuel’s 10 week old sister Promise. While she survived and is now 7 years old, she was battered to the extent she is left blind and unable to walk or talk. Meanwhile Jake Haro walked and breathed, a free man who ended up with Rebecca and together they had Emmanuel.

Discussion of Emmanuel’s heartbreaking case can be found starting HERE.

This thread is a dedicated place for Websleuths members and guests, to gather, share, organize, to help each other in going forward in Emmanuel's name with a campaign of reform to have law enacted to ensure that


"anyone who has caused serious bodily harm to a child should never again be allowed to act as a caregiver to another child."


We the people ... demand reform to enact Emmanuel’s Law as a legacy of love and protection of children in honour of precious little Emmanuel Haro.


Note: Tricia says if there is a petition in Emmanuel's name we can bring it here and post it.

 

[LovesPeace2]

We need this in Canada also ,to many being let around children that never should be ,

 

[Oblio]

I feel like it’s missing a word- willfully or violently.

That said, there needs to be a way to track folks from state to state or county to county- somebody really dropped the ball and CPS should have had his two youngest on a safety/parenting plan at a bare minimum. Idk if his charges were from a different county or what, but I find it unbelievable that there was no safety plan in place.

 

[Traymar]

Where do we start? Change.org?

 

[gotalight]

I would say drafting together exactly what we’d like to see change in the state or county from the current laws and practices and then contacting legislators and mayors and governors and such with the draft- if it needs a certain amount of signatures those would be the peeps who would let us know

 

[agilbe]

Two thoughts: They can't even track teachers with records from state to state. Case in point the couple who was killed while hiking with their daughters. That teacher was on his third state AND had changed his name. Sadly the reason Emmanuel was able to fall through the cracks is because it was a parent who harmed him. Normally caregivers are required to get background checked. Parents aren't. I agree though THIS can not go on!!

 

[CSIDreamer]

I'm just linking some sex offender stuff for wording ideas.

Home | Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website

Search sex offender registries for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories, and Indian Country.

www.nsopw.gov

 

[CSIDreamer]

Check and see if your state has a violent offender registry. Indiana does. Maybe it could be expanded to include violent offenses towards children.

This law firm link explains our registry.

Understanding Indiana’s Violent Offender Registry | Hessler Law

If your convicted of a violent crime, you may be required to register to the violent offender registry. Call (317) 886-8800 for help from our lawyers today.

www.hesslerlaw.com

 

[kid_a]

Hi all, I'm very interested on working on this. I'm a (relatively new) attorney. I've never written legislation or a petition before, but I'd be happy to do some research. I'm on maternity leave with my new baby right now so my hours and energy level are a bit all over the place, but when the baby is sleeping I can work! If anyone knows of any similar legislation let me know. I don't have access to my Westlaw account at the moment, but I will soon and I can start doing legal research on similar laws and figure out what criminal statutes in California to cite. California does have a "child abuse central index" apparently, but it isn't publicly available like the sex offender registry. I figure a rough outline of our law would be something like this:

Section 1: Definitions
Section 2(A): Offenders convicted of (violent child abuse crimes x, y, or z) shall not have legal custody or unsupervised visitation of minor children.
Section 2(B): A person living with an offender who has been convicted of (violent child abuse crimes x, y, or z) shall not have legal custody or unsupervised visitation of minor children.
Section 2(C): Penalties for failure to comply (revocation of probation, loss of child custody, custodial sentences, etc.)
Section 3(A): CPS has an affirmative duty to immediately remove children from homes in which an offender convicted of (x, y, or z child abuse offenses) resides.
Section 3(B): Penalties for failure to act resulting in death or serious injury of minors.

I'm open to any suggestions! These are just ideas off the top of my head that I'm typing one handed as I'm feeding my fussy baby with the other.

 

[TMich6811]

I’m here for this. However needed

 

[mickey2942]

At a national level, my own opinion is that we are also failing on adopted children. I could easily rattle off 10 children to start with, who were adopted to abusers who subsequently killed these children.

Nubia Barahona
Orrin West
Orson West
Troy

There are so many. They are the most vulnerable, already thrown away or removed from bad parents, only to end up with worse ones.

 

[CSIDreamer]

Hi all, I'm very interested on working on this. I'm a (relatively new) attorney. I've never written legislation or a petition before, but I'd be happy to do some research. I'm on maternity leave with my new baby right now so my hours and energy level are a bit all over the place, but when the baby is sleeping I can work! If anyone knows of any similar legislation let me know. I don't have access to my Westlaw account at the moment, but I will soon and I can start doing legal research on similar laws and figure out what criminal statutes in California to cite. California does have a "child abuse central index" apparently, but it isn't publicly available like the sex offender registry. I figure a rough outline of our law would be something like this:

Section 1: Definitions
Section 2(A): Offenders convicted of (violent child abuse crimes x, y, or z) shall not have legal custody or unsupervised visitation of minor children.
Section 2(B): A person living with an offender who has been convicted of (violent child abuse crimes x, y, or z) shall not have legal custody or unsupervised visitation of minor children.
Section 2(C): Penalties for failure to comply (revocation of probation, loss of child custody, custodial sentences, etc.)
Section 3(A): CPS has an affirmative duty to immediately remove children from homes in which an offender convicted of (x, y, or z child abuse offenses) resides.
Section 3(B): Penalties for failure to act resulting in death or serious injury of minors.

I'm open to any suggestions! These are just ideas off the top of my head that I'm typing one handed as I'm feeding my fussy baby with the other.

How about this? How about a petition that can be publicized and/or emailed to our local/state/national representatives?

I'd like to see a primary purpose of something along the lines of protecting children by . .

Then instead of sample laws our objectives? I think on a state level the legislators would write the draft?

I want crimes against children to be in a public, searchable database by offender name. So it should be added to an existing violent offender database or in a new one.

Does that make sense?

 

[nighttimesleuth]

Hi all, I'm very interested on working on this. I'm a (relatively new) attorney. I've never written legislation or a petition before, but I'd be happy to do some research. I'm on maternity leave with my new baby right now so my hours and energy level are a bit all over the place, but when the baby is sleeping I can work! If anyone knows of any similar legislation let me know. I don't have access to my Westlaw account at the moment, but I will soon and I can start doing legal research on similar laws and figure out what criminal statutes in California to cite. California does have a "child abuse central index" apparently, but it isn't publicly available like the sex offender registry. I figure a rough outline of our law would be something like this:

Section 1: Definitions
Section 2(A): Offenders convicted of (violent child abuse crimes x, y, or z) shall not have legal custody or unsupervised visitation of minor children.
Section 2(B): A person living with an offender who has been convicted of (violent child abuse crimes x, y, or z) shall not have legal custody or unsupervised visitation of minor children.
Section 2(C): Penalties for failure to comply (revocation of probation, loss of child custody, custodial sentences, etc.)
Section 3(A): CPS has an affirmative duty to immediately remove children from homes in which an offender convicted of (x, y, or z child abuse offenses) resides.
Section 3(B): Penalties for failure to act resulting in death or serious injury of minors.

I'm open to any suggestions! These are just ideas off the top of my head that I'm typing one handed as I'm feeding my fussy baby with the other.

This is great.

 

[nighttimesleuth]

How about this? How about a petition that can be publicized and/or emailed to our local/state/national representatives?

I'd like to see a primary purpose of something along the lines of protecting children by . .

Then instead of sample laws our objectives? I think on a state level the legislators would write the draft?

I want crimes against children to be in a public, searchable database by offender name. So it should be added to an existing violent offender database or in a new one.

Does that make sense?

Yes we need a searchable database alongside laws the limit custodial time with children if the parent has abused children in the past.

 

[CSIDreamer]

I just found this.

https://www.change.org/p/pass-emmanuel-s-law-protect-children-from-convicted-abusers-nationwide?recruiter=1336864275&recruited_by_id=9bb31c60-fe8b-11ee-8e5d-0334b613652c&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490720174_en-US%3A4

 

[CSIDreamer]

And these

https://www.change.org/search?q=emmanuel%20haro

This one seems to agree with our stance:

https://www.change.org/p/protect-our-children-create-a-national-child-abuse-offender-registry-emmanuel-s-law?source_location=search