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DALLAS – Police on Monday were waiting for confirmation that a body found over the weekend was that of a 3-year-old girl who disappeared from her suburban Dallas home earlier this month.
Sgt. Kevin Perlich, a Richardson police spokesman, said investigators don’t have reason to believe the body found Sunday is not that of Sherin Mathews, but they’re still waiting for the medical examiner’s office to confirm it and to determine a cause of death.
Sherin, who was adopted from India last year, was reported missing by her father, Wesley Mathews, on Oct. 7. He told police that he had ordered her to stand near a tree outside of their home at about 3 a.m. as punishment for not drinking her milk, and that she was gone when he went to check on her about 15 minutes later. Authorities say he waited five hours to report her missing.
Mathews, 37, is charged with abandoning or endangering a child and is free on bond. No additional charges had been filed as of Monday afternoon. According to police, Mathews said the girl was developmentally disabled and malnourished…
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