Missing Indian 3-Year-Old’s Father Arrested

TEXAS (US):
The father of a missing 3-year-old has been arrested and charged after he changed his story about her disappearance, Texas police said.
Wesley Mathews provided “an alternate statement of events” about his daughter Sherin to detectives hours after the body of a small child was found, Richardson police said. Mathews had claimed she went missing after he sent her alone into an alley when she wouldn’t drink her milk. Authorities did not provide details of Mathews’ new statement.
He has been charged with Injury to a Child, a first degree felony punishable by life or from five to 99 years in prison.
Officers and search dogs discovered a small child’s body in a culvert near Spring Valley and Bowser roads, less than a mile from the Mathews’ home in a suburb north of Dallas. Sherin disappeared Oct. 7.
A police spokesman told reporters that investigators have no reason to believe that the body belongs to another missing child. They are awaiting positive identification and for an autopsy to determine what killed the child. Investigators have notified Sherin’s parents.
Mathews had been arrested on child abandonment and endangerment charges the same day that Sherin went missing but was released on bail. As part of his bail condition, Mathews was required to surrender his passport and wear an electronic monitoring bracelet so authorities could track him at all times, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Sherin Mathews, who has developmental issues and limited verbal communication skills, was last seen outside her family’s backyard in Richardson city in Texas on October 7 after her foster father reportedly punished her and sent her alone outside late at night for not finishing her milk.
Sherin’s body was found about half a mile from the house of her adoptive parents Wesley and Sini Mathews. The body was found in a culvert beneath a road with the help of search dogs.