The foster mother of a three-year- old Indian girl, who was found dead in a culvert in Dallas last month, has managed to get her bail bond slashed to USD 100,000 from USD 250,000 but would remain under house arrest and wear an ankle monitor.
Sini Ann Mathews, 35, was arrested last week after investigators said she and her husband, Wesley Mathews, left their adopted daughter Sherin Matthews at home, without adult supervision for about 90 minutes, while they went out for dinner with their biological daughter on October 6.
Sherin was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a culvert about 1 km from her home in suburban Dallas, Texas, on October 22.
Wesley was arrested and charged with felony injury to a child, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison. He is still in the Dallas County jail on a USD 1 million bond.
During yesterday's hearing, Dallas County Criminal District Court Judge Stephanie Fargo reduced Sini's bond from USD 250,000 to USD 100,000. But she ruled that the Indian- American would remain under house arrest and wear an ankle monitor.