The father of a 3-year-old girl adopted from an Indian orphanage was indicted on a capital murder charge on Friday, nearly three months after the girl’s body was found in a culvert near their suburban Dallas home. Wesley Mathews, 37, has been jailed on a lesser charge in Dallas County since shortly after his daughter, Sherin, was found dead. Prosecutors said the murder charge, which could carry the death penalty, was filed after an autopsy determined the girl died from "homicidal violence".
Mathews initially said his daughter disappeared after he sent her outside as punishment for not drinking milk around 3 am on October 7. But after her body was found, he told police she choked to death and that he removed her body from the family’s home in Richardson, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Dallas.

The father of a 3-year-old girl adopted from an Indian orphanage was indicted on a capital murder charge on Friday, nearly three months after the girl’s body was found in a culvert near their suburban Dallas home. Wesley Mathews, 37, has been jailed on a lesser charge in Dallas County since shortly after his daughter, Sherin, was found dead. Prosecutors said the murder charge, which could carry the death penalty, was filed after an autopsy determined the girl died from "homicidal violence".
Mathews initially said his daughter disappeared after he sent her outside as punishment for not drinking milk around 3 am on October 7. But after her body was found, he told police she choked to death and that he removed her body from the family’s home in Richardson, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Dallas.