Washington sources have stated that Sherin Mathews, a three year old Indian girl who was found dead in a ditch last month in the US state of Texas, had a series of broken bones and injuries in various stages of healing that could not have happened prior to her adoption.
A doctor has said in a testimony before a court that the girl’s body was found in the culvert under a road about one kilometre from her home in suburban Dallas on October 22. She was reported missing by her foster father Wesley Mathews on October 7. Meanwhile Wesley Mathews and his wife Sini adopted the girl in June 2016 from Bihar.
Dr
Suzanne Dakil, a pediatrician and child abuse expert said the X-ray scans
suggested that the injuries were inflicted after the girl was adopted. The
X-rays this year showed that fractures in Sherin Mathews’ tibia and femur were
in different stages of healing. Moreover the doctor said that the pattern of
injuries led her to believe that Sherin Mathews was abused on separate
occasions. She then filed a report with Child Protective Services after seeing
the X-rays.
