Sheriff’s Deputy Alicia Lopez holds Matthew Castleberry, Jr., as he is given a pin during a media event at the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in Palm Desert, Calif., Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Alicia will be donating her kidney to three-year-old Matthew who suffered severe damage to his bladder and kidneys from Posterior Urethral Valves. (Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun)
The Desert Sun | July 11, 2017
A local interest feature I wrote on Sheriff’s Deputy Alicia Lopez and the Castleberry family. Lopez donated her kidney to 3-year-old Matthew, the son of a former sheriff’s department co-worker, after years of struggling with posterior urethral valves and other health conditions.
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