RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The father of a 7-month-old boy missing in Southern California pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of his son after a monthslong investigation that has failed to locate the child’s remains.

Jake Haro on Thursday also pleaded guilty to assault on a child under 8 that results in death, paralysis or a comatose state, and a misdemeanor count of filing a false report.

Haro, 32, and his wife Rebecca Haro, 41, attracted national attention this summer after reporting their son Emmanuel Haro had been kidnapped outside a store in San Bernardino County on Aug. 14.

Rebecca Haro told authorities that she was attacked outside a store in the community of Yucaipa while changing her son’s diaper and was left unconscious. Authorities said Haro told them that when she awoke, he

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