SHERIN’S PARENTS TO FACE SEPARATE TRIALS: US COURT

Houston, Feb. 8: A US court has ruled that the Indian-American foster parents of Sherin Mathews, accused in the death of their 3-year-old special needs daughter, will face separate trials, according to a media report.

Sherin, who was adopted by Wesley and Sini Mathews in 2016, was found dead in a culvert near the family’s home in Richardson, Texas, on October 22, 2017, two weeks after her family reported her missing. Wesley initially told the police that his daughter had gone missing from outside the house.

Sherin went missing when he went back, Wesley had contended. He changed his story later and told that Sherin choked on milk. He admitted to putting her body in the culvert near their home in Richardson in suburban Dallas. —