US police find body in missing child case

Austin : Police in Texas say they have found a body in the search for three-year-old Sherin Mathews, who went missing on 7 October.

Her adoptive father, Wesley Mathews, was arrested for child endangerment after telling police he had ordered her outside at 03:00 as punishment.

The Richardson police department said the remains were “most likely” Sherin’s.

The girl was adopted from an Indian orphanage two years ago.

Police have not specified how she may have died.

The body was found in a tunnel about half a mile from her home on Sunday. The area is being “treated as a crime scene”, police said.

An identification process is under way, the Press Trust of India news agency reports.

Police said they had “no reason” to believe the body was of any other child.