Sherin Susan Mathews (born Saraswati Kumari)[1] (July 14, 2014 – October 7, 2017) was an Indian American toddler who was found dead in a culvert in Richardson, Texas.
Soon after her birth, she was abandoned by her unknown biological parents, who left her in a bush at the city train station.
Investigators began to further doubt his version of events after discovering that the family SUV had departed the Mathews household at approximately 4 a.m. the morning Sherin went missing.
The SUV returned to the home before 5 a.m. on October 7, about three hours before Sherin's disappearance was reported to law enforcement.
Sini Mathews told Dr. Dakil that Sherin had brittle bones as a result of the poor diet she'd had in India.
Babita Kumari later stated that Sherin had never been malnourished or shown any other health problems while she lived at the orphanage.
[8][6] On January 3, 2018, Sherin's cause of death was reported as "homicidal violence" by the Dallas County Medical Examiner's office.
She was charged with child abandonment after police alleged she left Sherin home alone on the night of October 6.
[14][15] Wesley Mathews motioned for a new trial following his sentencing, claiming the photographs of the child's dead body, or the photos showing her injuries before her death, should never have been shown.