Sherin's foster father may face death sentence

January 14, 2018 17:02

Prosecutors in Texas will decide in the coming weeks whether to seek the death penalty against the Indian-American adoptive father of 3-year-old toddler Sherin Mathews whose decomposed body was found in a culvert,

according to US media reports.

A grand jury in Dallas County, Texas, on Friday returned several charges, most notably capital murder, against Sherin's foster father Wesley Mathews.

The 37-year-old man from Kerala is accused of killing Sherin in October last year.

The indictment says Wesley killed Sherin "by a manner and means unknown to the grand jury," court records show.

Wesley was arrested on October 7 and charged with felony injury to a child, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison, after Sherins body was found on October 22 in a culvert in suburban Dallas by a cadaver dog after an intense search.

-- PTI

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