Onhan nuo "Kyllä minä olen semmonen poppahenkilö, että näen naamasta jos joku on murhuri!" -jutut on vaan typeriä ja väsyneitä. Jos kuvasta pystys aukottomia luonneanalyysejä tekemään, niin mihin tarvittas kuulusteluja?
Noh, asiaan. Sherin on haudattu lähiomaisten läsnäollessa yksityisessä seremoniassa. Isä on edelleen pidätettynä miljoonan takuita vastaan, äiti sanoo olleensa nukkumassa lapsen katoamishetkellä. Sherinin sisko on lastensuojeluviranomaisten huomassa.
SHERIN MATHEWS LAID TO REST WITH MOM IN ATTENDANCE
Sini Mathews attended the private ceremony for Sherin Mathews, whose body was found in a culvert earlier this month.
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WFAA
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4:49 PM CDT October 31, 2017
RICHARDSON -- Three-year-old Sherin Mathews was laid to rest in a private ceremony Tuesday, family attorneys said.
The funeral was held "according to the religious beliefs and the cultural heritage of her family," attorneys Mitchell R. Nolte and Gregg Gibbs said in a statement.
Her burial location is being kept a secret, the attorneys said, who confirmed to WFAA that Sini Mathews, Sharin Mathews' adoptive mother, was in attendance, along with close family and friends.
"Because of the intense press and social media attention in this case, the family chose to keep the ceremony private so the focus could be on Sherin’s future in Heaven and not on her tragic death on Earth," the attorneys said.
They added that the family "cannot express their gratitude to everyone personally," but appreciates the outpouring of prayers and love during this time.
Sherin Mathews' body was found Oct. 22 after she disappeared from her family's home on Oct. 7. Her father told police that he put her outside at 3 a.m. to discipline her for not drinking her milk.
His story changed after her body was found in a culvert, telling police that he "assisted" with pouring the milk down Sherin's throat and then moved her body after he realized she had choked and died.
Wesley was arrested and charged with felony injury to a child. He's still in the Dallas County jail on a $1 million bond.
Sini Mathews, a nurse, says she was sleeping during the incident and had nothing to do with Sherin's death. The Mathews' biological 4-year-old daughter was taken into state custody by Child Protective Services.
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Myös intialaisessa orpokodissa ollaan järkytytty. Jutussa on lähinnä haastateltu tätä orpokodin johtajaa, joka ihmettelee miten lapsi voi olla aliravittu kuvien perusteella. Aiheellinen pointti kieltämättä. Sherinillä ei myöskään ollut väitettyjä oppimisvaikeuksia tms adoptiohetkellä, eikä mitään tarvetta ns. pakkosyötölle keskellä yötä muutenkaan. Joku fiksumpi voinee kääntää koko jutun, tässä kuiten pääpiirteittäin.
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The Indian orphanage where she lived before the adoption has said they want answers as to why the "happy and cheerful" child died, as reported by the Washington Post.
“We loved her laughter,” Babita Kumari, who managed the Mother Teresa Orphanage and Children’s Home in the city of Nalanda in eastern India’s Bihar state.
Sherin had lived at the orphanage since she was an infant and at the time was named Saraswati, after the Hindu goddess of wisdom.
“She was a smart child,” Ms Kumari said.
She was then puzzled to hear what happened to the toddler and how Mathews, who adopted her last year, was jailed.
Mathews told police Sherin was drinking milk in the middle of the night because she needed to have meals at odd hours as part of a special diet because she was malnourished.
“Look at the photos of the child. Does she look malnourished?” Ms Kumari asked.
“I have so many questions about what happened to her,” she added.
Sherin Mathews
Sherin Mathews (AP)
Mathews had reported his daughter missing on 7 October after he said he sent her alone into an alley near their home in Richardson, Texas, as punishment.
He reported her missing several hours after the initial disappearance raising questions.
Then more than two weeks later, after police found a body, Mathews "voluntarily arrived at the Richardson Police Station with his attorney and asked to speak to detectives".
He told police that he had been "trying to get the three-year-old girl to drink her milk in the garage" but she wouldn't listen to him, according to court documents,
He said he "physically assisted" Sherin in drinking her milk and that the girl choked on the drink.
"She was coughing and her breathing slowed. Eventually, Wesley Mathews no longer felt a pulse on the child and believed she had died," the affidavit said. Mathews then admitted to removing her body from the home.
Dental records were used to identify the body as Sherin after officers and search dogs found the body in a culvert less than a mile from the family's home.
A cause of death is yet to be confirmed.
Mathews told police three-year-old had developmental disabilities and had to eat every time she was awake to help her gain weight.
But the child was said to be eating solid food and drinking milk from a cup when she left the orphanage and Ms Kumari told the Associated Press that she squinted in one eye but was otherwise fine when adopted by Wesley and Sini Mathews in June 2016.
“Why did they have to make her eat or drink anything at that hour? Why was he forcing her?” Ms Kumari asked.
“If someone is forcing a drink into the mouth of someone who is crying and sobbing, then even an adult can choke.”
As reported by the Post, Wesley Mathews’s attorney, Rafael De La Garza, did not respond to requests for comment.
The attorney representing the girl’s mother, Sini Mathews, however, Mitch Nolte, said in a statement this week that the mother was not involved in Sherin’s death or the removal of her body and wants privacy to mourn her child.
Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter that passports for children adopted from India will now be issued only with the ministry's approval.
She also asked the Consulate General of India in Houston to investigate the child's death.