3-Year-Old Girl Missing After Being Forced To Stand Outside At Night For Not Drinking Milk
October 10, 2017 by admin
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Police in Texas are searching for a 3-year-old girl who disappeared Saturday while standing outside alone in the middle of the night as a punishment for not drinking her milk.
Sherin Mathews, who is thought to be in grave and immediate danger, was last seen by her father, Wesley Mathews, 37, outside their home in Richardson, Texas, at 3 a.m. Saturday.
Mathews took his daughter outside to discipline her after she refused to drink her milk and told her to stand by a tree in their backyard, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. When he returned 15 minutes later to check on the girl, she was gone.
Police said Monday night that while they canceled the Amber alert, which had been issued Saturday, due to a lack of new information, search efforts were still ongoing. Local officials are now working with several national agencies, including, the FBI and US Marshals Service.
Mathews did not report his daughter missing for five hours and told police when they arrived that coyotes had recently been spotted in the alley behind their house where Sherin was last seen. The backyard also backs up to railroad tracks.
He was arrested Saturday on charges of abandoning or endangering a child and released on a $250,000 bond, officials said Monday.
“Why was the last sighting at 3 o’clock and the parents not call us until after 8 a.m., that’s the question we want answered,” Richardson police spokesman Sgt. Kevin Perlich told the Dallas Morning News.
Texas Child Protective Services removed the missing girl’s 4-year-old sister from the Mathews home on Monday. A CPS spokesperson told NBC News that the agency has had “contact” with the family before but “details are confidential.”
