Wesley Mathews, father of the missing 3-year-old adopted Indian girl, Sherin Mathews has been arrested, the Richardson Police said on Monday.
The father 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 earlier claimed his three-year-old adopted child went missing after he sent her alone into an alley when she wouldn't drink her milk.
Authorities have not provided the details of the 'alternate statement' given by Mathews.
Police has arrested him and has charged with Injury to a Child, a first degree felony punishable by life or from five to 99 years in prison.
Dallas News reports Wesley Mathews was being held in the Richardson City Jail and bail bond has been set at $1 million USD.
On Sunday, the police discovered a body during their search of the three-year-old girl and said though the body has been sent for identification, they believe it is 'most likely' missing girl's body.
Officers and search dogs on Sunday morning discovered a small child's body in a culvert, less than a mile from the Mathews' home in a suburb north of Dallas.
Sherin disappeared October 7th.
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.
