{"id":51718,"date":"2017-10-23T00:58:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=51718"},"modified":"2017-10-23T00:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:58:45","slug":"body-girl-3-found-weeks-dad-made-stand-outside-punishment-not-drinking-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=51718","title":{"rendered":"Body of girl, 3, found weeks after dad ‘made her stand outside as punishment for not drinking milk’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Richardson, Texas, said Sunday they believe they have found the body of Sherin Mathews, the adopted 3-year-old girl who disappeared in the early hours of Oct. 7.<\/p>\n

The Richardson Police Department said investigators discovered a body around 11 a.m. Sunday in a culvert beneath a road and believe it to be Mathews; however, police won\u2019t identify the body until there is a positive identification by proper officials.<\/p>\n

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The location where the body was found is close to the Mathews\u2019 home, according to Dallas News.<\/p>\n

Mathews, who has a developmental disability, vanished two weeks ago after her father, Wesley Mathews, left her outside at 3 a.m. in an alleyway \u2014 allegedly frequented by coyotes \u2014 because she didn\u2019t drink her milk.<\/p>\n

Wesley, 37, said when he checked on her 15 minutes later, she was gone. He didn\u2019t call police until five hours had passed.<\/p>\n

Sherin\u2019s father reportedly did laundry while Sherin was missing, while Sherin\u2019s mother, Sini, said she was asleep during the ordeal.<\/p>\n

Investigators found that on the morning Sherin went missing, someone had driven the family\u2019s SUV away from their home in Richardson and didn\u2019t return until an hour later. It was after the SUV returned that Wesley reported Sherin missing.<\/p>\n

As they continued to investigate the 3-year-old\u2019s disappearance, law enforcement had searched the Mathews\u2019 home and took a number of items, including a vacuum cleaner, trash bags, hair fibers, cell phones and laptops.<\/p>\n

Attorney Bree West, a former Dallas County assistant district attorney who\u2019s not involved in the case, said that while most of the items collected at the Mathews home were pretty standard, some confiscated items \u2014 a blue string, dark hair-like fibers, vacuum contents, two yellow gloves, dish scrubber inside two grocery bags and the washer and dryer \u2014 had stood out to her.<\/p>\n

Police had also taken DNA swabs, receipts, grass and other debris from three vehicles belonging to the Mathews family.<\/p>\n

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