secretary kathleen sebelius told sarah s parents she s not authorized to intervene but is ordering a transplant policy review, adding, i know this is not the answer you were hoping to receive. my prayers are with you. she says, oh, i m so sorry. i know this isn t what you wanted to hear. it is in her legal authority. we re going to let a kid die over red tape? reporter: it s a battle sarah shares with other children, comparing her lungs disease cf to a boat filling with sand. close your eyes and pretend that you re on the boat, but sand sks your boat, but we re going to be okay. tell me what you think her chances are now, given that the secretary did not step in?
lung. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius e-mailed sarah s parents to tell them the best she could do is order a transplant policy review. while i do not have the authority to intervene in a particular case, what i can do is direct the optn to re-examine the lung allocation policy. i know this is not the answer you were hoping to receive, and i can t begin to imagine how difficult this situation. my prayers are with you. she says oh, i m so sorry, i know this isn t what you wanted to hear. we re going to let a kid die over red tape? reporter: it s a battle sarah shares with other children, comparing her lungs diseased with cf to a boat filling with sand. close your eyes and pretend
ariel castro is facing the possibility of murder charges for the death of his victims unborn children. for the first time ariel castro stood before the bar of justice. mr. castro stand before you a captive, in captivity, prisoner. reporter: castro, 52-year-old former bus driver was charged with rape and kidnapping for allegedly abducting three women and holding them prisoner for a decade. castro bit his collar, held his head down and signed documents with his hands and the judge set bail at $8 million. this child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city. reporter: details of their ordeal are hard to bear. amanda berry told police she was forced to give birth in a plastic kiddie pool. her child now 6 and the three women never saw a doctor while they were held. michelle knight says castro ended the five pregnancies he
this is from police reports in the first 24 hours. even though they ve been traumatized, they ve been bottling this up for years. right now, their memories are going to be the most clear they ll ever be. sometimes the adrenaline will bring on more clarification. if the women are saying this, it s probably credible and most likely true. and the detail of that. having a baby in a kiddie pool to minimize the mess it would make. this is just the sort of thing nobody would make up. and it s disturbing, because it shows the mentality of the captor and the suffering of the captives. can you explain more how someone could keep this secret? we talked about this neighborhood, that it was the houses are close together. people live life in the warm weather out on the street. ariel castro among them. he had a job until november. he was not often there. how does this happen and you keep it a secret? because he s out and about is
clarity on that in the coming days. a lot of people have connected with charles ramsey. thanks to brian. and out front tonight, casey jordan. we have been hears information about the baby, how it was born in some sort of plastic tub. he threatened the oldest woman he would kill her if she didn t make sure amanda berry s baby survived. every detail is more and more strange. this is out of the horse s mouth. this is from police reports in the first 24 hours. even though they ve been traumatized, they ve been bottling this up for years. right now, their memories are going to be the most clear they ll ever be. sometimes the adrenaline will bring on more clarification. if the women are saying this, it s probably credible and most likely true. and the detail of that. having a baby in a kiddie pool