Autopsy determines adopted tot was homicide victim

New York Post ^ | January 4, 2018 | Associated Press

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Steven Kurtz with the Dallas County medical examiner’s office said Sherin Mathews was a victim of homicide but that he couldn’t provide any other details from the autopsy at this point. The Texas attorney general’s office must decide whether the full report can be released to the public, he said.

Mathews said he had been trying to get the girl to drink milk in the garage of their home, according to an arrest affidavit filed by Richardson police.

“Eventually the 3-year-old girl began to drink the milk. Wesley Mathews then physically assisted the 3-year-old girl in drinking the milk,” according to the affidavit.

Mathews told police that Sherin choked and coughed and eventually he felt no pulse and believed the child had died. Investigators wrote that he “then admitted to removing the body from the home.”

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[Perseverando]

My heart breaks when I think of little children suffering needlessly at the hands of evil adults.

There is no punishment too severe for those who harm children.

[Slyfox]

Poor thing. She was found on a trash heap in India (?) and adopted. Then she is killed and is placed in a drainage ditch. Pray for her little soul.

[yldstrk]

monsters. Damn them for thinking they have to dominate. Throw away the key.

[dfwgator]

If they didn’t provide the details, that tells you it must have been pretty bad.

[beaversmom]

A couple of other cases of foreign-born, adopted tots being killed:

This one in 1997 in my state of CO:
Woman Sentenced to 22 Years in Death of Adopted Son
https://mobile.nytimes.com/1997/09/23/us/woman-sentenced-to-22-years-in-death-of-adopted-son.html

And from Texas in 2013:
After Adopted Boy Dies in U.S., Russian Officials Accuse Texas Woman
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/world/europe/adopted-boys-death-in-us-stirs-outrage-in-russia.html

I’m very sorry to hear about this cute little girl meeting a horrible end.
I think many of these foreign-born children have special needs in some fashion, and the adoptive parents aren’t always equipped emotionally/intellectually/tempermentally to handle it. It’s a terrible shame for the child.

From the second link:

Anger over adoption was revived in 2010 when a 7-year-old boy, born Artyom Solovyev, was sent alone on a flight back to Russia by his adoptive mother from Tennessee, along with a note saying the boy was “violent and has severe psychopathic issues.”

[beaversmom]

From the first link:

The case has touched off a debate among psychologists and adoption officials about a disorder that is increasingly being diagnosed as the number of foreign adoptions rise. Last year, Americans adopted 11,340 children from foreign countries, more than twice the number adopted two decades ago. While the vast majority appear to be successful, some bring turmoil that is only beginning to be acknowledged publicly.

Whatever happened here in Greeley, reactive attachment disorder is an illness recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. The disorder, in which a child cannot bond with a caregiver and frequently flies into fits of rage and destructive behavior, can be the result of an extended period of emotional deprivation in the early months of life.

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Ms. Tepper cautioned that factors other than poor institutional care, such as fetal alcohol syndrome and low birth weight, may be a cause of the problems.

[beaversmom]

And apologies, but the parents in the 2013 Texas case were cleared, but the little boy had special-needs. From the article:

Investigators in Texas have cleared Mrs Shatto and her husband Alan, 51, an oil engineer, of blame, concluding that Max died from internal injuries probably caused by a fall from a swing.

They also said that Max’s external injuries were the self-inflicted wounds of a mentally troubled child who tore at his skin and threw himself headfirst at floors and walls.

[beaversmom]

Link for my last post:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10281727/Adoptive-US-parents-of-Max-Shatto-break-silence.html

[Gene Eric]

>> Investigators: concluded that Max died from internal injuries probably caused by a fall from a swing.

Investigators, co-conspirators...