Missing 3-year-old choked to death on milk, her foster father tells police
Heartbreak, anger in US' Richardson after Indian girl's death
Just a day after the body of three-year-old was discovered,?Wesley Mathews altered?his statement and admitted?that he had ?removed the body? of his adopted daughter from his house
Just a day after the body of three-year-old, Sherin Mathews, was discoveredin Richardson, Texas, police informed that the father,Wesley Mathews, alteredhis statement and admittedthat he had “removed the body” of his adopted daughter from his house after she choked to death on milk.
Authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the bodydiscoveredby officers and search dogs while inspectinga culvert near Spring Valley, just half a mile away from Sherin'shome in a tunnel beneath a road,washer's.
Wesley Mathews, who hails from Kerala, was booked into the Richardson City Jail on a USD one million bond. (Others)
Mathews releaved in a police reportthathis daughter “wouldn’t listen to him” when he initially tried to feed her milk. After she began to drink iton her own, Mathews “physically assisted” her until she “began to choke,” said the police on Tuesday.
“She was coughing and her breathing slowed,” the authorities informed. “Eventually, Wesley Mathews no longer felt a pulse on the child and believed she had died.”
Mathews had initiallyclaimed that Sherin went missing after he sent her outside their home at around 3 am on October 7 as punishment for not drinking her milk.
Wesley has been charged withfirst-degree felony injury to a child and is held on a bond of $1 million. He is reportedly lodged in Richardson City Jail.
State Child Protective Services tookWesley and his wife, Sini Mathews', 4-year-old biological daughter from their home shortlyafter Sherin was announcedmissing. Thejudge toldthat the girl will remain in foster care until a custody hearing in November.