about two months after he dropped felony charges against high school senior matt barnett for the alleged sexual assault of 14-year-old daisy coleman. barnett has admitted to having sex with her but he says it was consensual. coleman provided the recordings to cnn because she says she and her daughter did cooperate with authorities. something rice go contests. in fact, rice said they needed the fifth in a deposition and understood the entire case would therefore be dismissed. but coleman tells outfront, that s not exactly what happened. when they asked to us plead the fifth, that was well after all the felony charges were dropped. the felony charges were dropped march 13th. they didn t approach us about pleading the fifth until the misdemeanor charge, the one misdemeanor charge that was left, and that was the end of may, first of june. reporter: it was around that time, coleman recorded this
who bought it at $85. secret recordings in the missouri rape case. the mother of a 14-year-old alleged uranium victim has released audio tapes she had. melinda coleman said the tapes prove she and her daughter cooperated with authorities and wanted to testify. this is all what this comes down to. did they want to testify? and that they only invoke their fifth amendment rights after felony charges were dropped against the boy. but do the tapes conclusively prove the prosecutor dropped the ball? we begin our coverage with george. we thought we had done everything. reporter: the tape medical ain t coleman says will prove her daughter daisy s case. audio recordings of her conversations with prosecutor robert rice who at the time did not know he was being taped. i don t know what s going on but somebody is not telling the truthful. reporter: coleman said she began taping her conversations with rice in may 2012.
confirming to cnn that the glitch filled website will be coming down for maintenance. this comes on the same day new problems were expose asked the official from the health and human services said kathleen sebelius will not be available to answer questions at a congressional hearing next week on what went wrong. i can tell you at this moment, we have just found out that this health and high school services secretary. i m here at my blackberry, has time on appear at the inaugural kennedy forum gala the night before in boston. so she ll be in boston at a gala but unable to testify in washington the next day. republicans continue to call for second sebelius to be fired. brian todd has been tracking the glitches. official are obviously downplaying the significance of the webb coming down. what s your kae in. my take is they ve had so many problems with this website. even if there is a high maintenance, maintenance action overnight, they ll be lumping it in with the other mainte
0 continue online. it will continue across the country. you can go to cnn.com/crossfire and twitter to weigh in. from the left. i m van jones. and i m s.e. cupp. erin burnett outfront right now. who should take the fall for the disastrous rollout? some say kathleen sebelius should be the one fired. plus, a doctor accused of killing his wife. was it murder or an accident? and a 14-year-old girl said she was raped by an older stoonl. the charges dropped but the girl s mother made secret recordings of the prosecutor. we ll play that for you. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett outfront. we have some news. an official from the darrel of health and human services confirming to cnn that the glitch filled website will be coming down for maintenance. this comes on the same day new problems were expose asked the official from the health and human services said kathleen sebelius will not be available to answer questions at a congressional hearing next week on what went
the prosecuting attorney was ready to prosecute, but both the victim and her family refused to cooperate. the only people s stories that have been inconsistent throughout this whole thing are the colemans, the victims in this case. and i don t know why that is, but it is. reporter: those claims don t add up according to melinda coleman. there were threats made against her children. coleman says she was fired from her job. so the colemans picked up and moved away again, away from the small american town that was supposed to give them a new lease on life. well, daisy coleman and her mother are out front giving an exclusive interview. thank you, we know it is difficult to come on and tell your story, with such a difficult matter, in some ways, daisy, it will be a night you will never forget, and other