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Selecting the children was not whether they were truly orphans but if they were under age 10. was laura well aware that these children were not orphans? did she know -- did she know they were not orphans but had a parent or two parents or -- >> did she know that she -- that this they were not orphan? >> reporter: yeah. >> yeah. >> reporter: an austrian charity caring for the children confirmed that two-thirds of them are not orphans. some of the children came from this mountain village of calabas. like other parents we met here this man said he was too poor to care for his daughters after quak...

So for him to actually say that -- state that, i don't exactly know where he is coming from when he says that. >> he was asked in this "new york" magazine thing about the channeler. i don't know what a channeler is, but this person said that there was a channeler that said maybe the people were having so much fun maybe they just moved on to the next life. he was asked do you agree with this? he said basically i'm not qualified to talk about channeling. i leave that for other people to decide. the obvious answer would be like, no, that is an inappropriate statement. >> right. and this new age g...

Selecting the children was not whether they were truly orphans but if they were under able 10. was laura well aware that these children were not orphans? did she know -- did she know they were not orphans but had a parent or two parents or -- >> did she know that she -- that they were orphan? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> reporter: a an austrian charity caring for the children confirmed that two-thirds of them are not orphans. some of the children came from this mountain village of calabas. like other parents we met here this man said he was too poor to care for his daughters after quake. he hoped the ...

Family immediately, does that -- i mean, that's got to rub you the wrong way. >> yeah. i mean, it completely rubs me the wrong way, but there's a lot of things -- i mean, james ray preached about living an impeccable life, taking responsibility for your life, taking responsibility for your actions. that was preached a lot during the whole course of the events. and then james ray showed up, the real james ray showed up in the end and thing is that the man who has actually never showed any kind of accountability, responsibility in any shape or form, this whole event has totally changed my life. ...

In jailhouse interviews saturday and sunday with cnn, silsby and the other americans appear to portray themselves as well-intentioned but naive. >> i can tell you our heart and our intent was only to help those children that needed us most that they had lost either both mother and father. >> reporter: but another interpreter working for the missionaries says criteria for selecting the children was not whether they were truly orphans but if they were under able 10. but if they were under age 10.g. was laura well aware that these children were not orphans? did she know -- did she know they were ...