US: Police clueless on Indian girl's disappearance

HOUSTON: One week since a three-year-old Indian woman vanished throughout an alleged incident of peculiar late-night punishment meted out via her Indian foster father, police in Richardson are but to discover a clue as to what took place to her, US media reviews mentioned on Sunday.

Sherin Mathews vanished last Saturday after her father Wesley Mathews told police he left her outdoor at 3am as punishment for now not drinking her milk.

Mathews claimed that after he went to test on her around three.15am she was once long past. Police mentioned he waited 5 hours ahead of reporting Sherin missing.

During an interview with detectives, Wesley Mathews mentioned he checked around his home for Sherin after which went back inside of to do laundry. He was once launched from prison last Sunday after posting his USD 250,000 bond.

Neighbours of the Indian-American couple have became the tree around the backyard alley from Sherin's home in Richardson in Dallas, Texas into a memorial to the little woman. People have left teddy bears, balloons, angel figurines, a box of written prayers, and even a single gallon of milk, WFFA TV reported.

It is the tree the place her father Wesley claims he left the lady as punishment. He claims that after he got here back to get her she was once long past.

Wesley has since been arrested, and bonded out, on a rate of child endangerment and ordered to put on an ankle track as the investigation continues. But after per week, with searches that integrated the assistance of the FBI, Richardson police tell News eight in this 8th day of her disappearance that they have got no new information to record.

US Child Protective Services has taken custody of the couple's older 4-year-old daughter and neither Wesley Mathews nor his spouse have talked publicly about what took place.

Police are still on the lookout for any surveillance video or information that can lend a hand show them the place the family's SUV went when it disappeared for an hour that morning.

So some distance, tips from the public have now not ended in any definitive clues that would lead police to Sherin.

"I pray every night, but I more pray the mama say the truth because this baby need to be in peace, and the people feeling bad need to be in peace too," mentioned a local resident Silvia Johnson.

Police are asking other people to test surveillance footage for a maroon Acura SUV they are saying left the house an hour after Sherin disappeared.

"We would like to thank those who have provided tips and video up to this point. We are diligently working our way through all of the material. We continue to request businesses and residents within a 30-minute drive of the 900 block of Sunningdale to check your video systems to see if there is any footage that may have captured a 2013 maroon Acura MDX SUV on Saturday, October 7th, between 4AM and 5AM," Richardson Police Department mentioned just lately in a Facebook submit.

Police have now not mentioned how they know the automobile was once missing or who was once driving. Investigators got rid of 3 of the family's automobiles, including the Acura SUV, from the house previous last week for analysis.

Detectives have now not mentioned whether Wesley Mathews is a suspect, but they have cleared his spouse Sini Mathews. Police prior to now mentioned she was once asleep and unaware her husband had made their daughter stand outdoor as punishment.

"She is distraught. As you are all aware, they adopted Sherin, and they love Sherin," Sini's attorney Kent Starr mentioned. "All she wants is for her daughter to be returned."