Police in Texas, US say they have “most likely” found the body of Sherin Mathews, the missing 3-year-old girl whose father claims he sent her alone into an alley when she wouldn’t drink her milk, the reports.
Three-year-old Sherin Mathews, who was adopted in India by Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews was reported missing in the morning of October 7 from her residence.
Wesley told the police that he had sent the child out of home at 3 am as punishment for not drinking her milk.
Wesley was arrested after being charged for abandoning and endangering a child but was later released on bond.
The Richardson Police Department, during their investigation, found that a car owned by the family was absent from the house from 4 am to 5 am.
In the days that followed, the Richardson Police Department, along with the FBI, have collected and evaluated CCTV visuals from the neighbourhood, and conducted multiple searches to find the child.
16 days later, the Richardson police, on Sunday, announced that the body of a young girl had been found.
The Richardson police department said that a body had been recovered from a culvert near Sherin's house at around 11 am.
The police department is yet to confirm the identity of the body.
"At this time, I want you to know that a positive identification has not been made," a spokesperson for the Richardson police department said, adding the body is 'most likely hers'.
The location where the body was found is close to the Mathews’ home,
