The mother of Emmanuel Haro entered a guilty plea to charges related to covering up the murder of her infant son after making a deal with prosecutors.

Rebecca Haro pleaded guilty on Friday, May 29, to charges of felony child abuse, involuntary manslaughter and accessory after the fact, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office (RCDAO).

This comes nine months after the disappearance of the 7-month-old, who is presumed dead by authorities.

The RCDAO said that as part of the deal, Rebecca was sentenced to 12 years and 8 months in state prison.

Her husband, Jake Haro, is already in state prison and could remain there for the rest of his life after pleading guilty to murder in his son’s death.

Rebecca previously pleaded not guilty to murder in September 2025.

“Investigators determined Emmanuel suffered repeated abuse at the hands of his father, while Rebecca Haro failed to protect her son or seek medical care and later helped conceal the circumstances surrounding his death,” the RCDAO said in a new release.

Assistant District Attorney Brandon Smith said of Rebecca: “Her choice not to intervene was a choice to allow, if not facilitate, Emmanuel’s death. This defendant had a legal and moral responsibility as Emmanuel’s mother. She catastrophically failed in that duty.”

Rebecca had reported that her son was kidnapped on Aug. 14, 2025, just before 8 p.m. from the parking lot of a sporting goods store in Yucaipa, a city located 10 miles east of San Bernardino.

“I took him out of the car seat and I laid him on the chair, and I had his diapers right here,” Rebecca said after filing what authorities claim was a false kidnapping report. “Someone said ‘Hola,’ and I couldn’t even turn and … I don’t remember nothing.”

Rebecca told police her next memory was waking up to find her son gone. At first, no one doubted the apparently grieving mother, who still had the large black eye she claimed to have sustained in the attack, PEOPLE previously reported.

The investigation quickly ran into roadblocks, however, in the form of glaring inconsistencies in Rebecca’s stories, authorities said, adding that both she and her husband began to distance themselves and within a week had stopped providing any sort of assistance in the matter.

That prompted the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to shift the focus of its probe, and on Aug. 22, the agency released a statement saying that deputies had “determined a kidnapping in Yucaipa did not occur.”

And after hundreds of hours poured into a search for the missing baby, the statement said: “It is believed Emmanuel is deceased and the search to recover his remains is ongoing.”

Jake and Rebecca were arrested that same day on suspicion of murder and booked into custody.

On Aug. 24, Jake briefly left jail to help investigators in their search for his son.

Authorities now believe that Emmanuel was killed days before his mother’s false reports, with the last known sighting of the child occurring on Aug. 5, according to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE.

In a separate case, Jake entered a guilty plea to a charge of willful neglect of a child just two years ago after severely abusing his 10-week-old daughter.

The incident occurred in 2018, and the girl’s injuries were so severe that prosecutors said at a news conference she is “permanently bedridden” and suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of the abuse.

The couple also had a 2-year-old child who was removed from their custody.