Mother of slain three-year-old Indian girl adopted in India, Sherin Mathew who was found dead in a culvert near her home, has been arrested and charged in the US.
Sini Mathews has been charged with abandoning or endangering a child after turning herself in to police on Thursday afternoon, Dallas News reports.
Sini was escorted by her attorney when she turned herself in at the Richardson City Jail.
The charges come three days after Sini appeared in court for custody of her biological 4-year-old daughter, who has been in foster care for the past four weeks.
Sini's husband, Wesley, remains in police custody charged with Injury to a child. He was arrested a day after Sherin's body was found on Oct. 23.
An arrest warrant affidavit reveals that Sini, Wesley Mathews and their biological daughter went to a restaurant in North Garland, leaving Sherin behind alone at home.
Source: Dallas News
Cell phone records and receipts place Sini and Wesley at the restaurant the night of Oct. 6.
The itemized receipt indicated that the family ordered one child's meal at the restaurant, which was also confirmed by the waiter serving their table.
The affidavit says Sherin was left at home for an hour-and-a-half.
When her adoptive parents returned, she was "still in the kitchen." The affidavit does not provide clarity on how or when Sherin died.
Wesley has earlier claimed to police that he had sent Sherin outside the house at 3am as punishment for not drinking her milk.
He changed his testimony weeks later after he was arrested, saying she choked on milk in the garage.
He has now claimed he "grew impatient" over Sherin's refusal to drink milk and asked the family to come to dinner with him. Sini went voluntarily, the affidavit states.
More than two weeks after Sherin went missing, her body was found in a culvert during a search operation near their house.
