DALLAS, TX (TIP): Indian American foster father Wesley Mathews, accused of killing his three-year-old daughter Sherin Mathews and hiding her body in a ditch in Texas in 2017, has been sentenced to life in jail. Mathews, 39, on June 24 pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child. He was originally charged for capital murder.

The 12-member jury deliberated on June 26 for about three hours before coming to a united decision to give Wesley Mathews a sentence of life term in prison. Mathews and his wife Sini adopted Sherin in June 2016 from Bihar. Sherin Mathews disappeared on October 7, 2017. Her body was found in a culvert in Richardson under a road about one kilometer from her home in suburban Dallas on Oct 22, 2018.

Mathews’ wife Sini was also charged with child abandonment, but her case was dismissed earlier this year due to lack of evidence.