RICHARDSON (CBSDFW.COM) – The disappearance of a three-year-old girl in Richardson could have started as punishment for not drinking her milk. 
 
 The new information is emerging as police release a report following yesterday’s arrest of the little girl’s father. Meanwhile, little Sherin Mathews is still missing. An Amber Alert was issued Saturday afternoon. 
 
 The report released by Richardson police is Wesley Mathew’s version of events from early Saturday morning. Mathews told police he took his daughter outside their backyard at 3 a.m. 
 
 “Wesley Mathews said he directed his daughter to stand near a large tree… because she wouldn’t drink her milk,” says the report. “At approximately 3:15 a.m., he went back to the spot where he directed his daughter to stay and she was gone.” 
 
 The report says Mathews showed police where he left the three-year-old, about 100 feet outside the family’s backyard fence. 
 
 “Wesley Mathews later told [the detective] he knew coyotes had been seen in the alley where he left his daughter,” says the report. 
 
 A neighbor who asked to not use his name says Wesley and his wife, who was interviewed by police but is home now, struggled to conceive. They finally gave birth to a little girl, who is a year older than Sherin. About a year and a half ago, the couple announced they adopted a little girl from India. 
 
 “They felt since God gave them that baby as a miracle baby, they could help another little one without a family out,” said the neighbor. 
 
 With Sherin still missing, Richardson police flooded the neighborhood Sunday, asking neighbors for surveillance video. Yesterday, the family’s van and two SUVs were towed by police. 
 
 The Mathews’ church friends are doing their best to help, passing out fliers in the neighborhood. They wouldn’t say how they are reconciling information put out by police and the man they went to church with. 
 
 “We, at this moment, we are not saying anything about that,” said church member Jose Cherian. “We are not sure about anything. I don’t want to say anything if we are not sure about it.” 
 
 The Amber Alert that was issued for Sherin yesterday is still active. Her father is being held at the Richardson jail, charged with child endangerment. ||||| The father of a 3-year-old Texas girl missing since Oct. 7 told police that he watched his daughter choke on milk and die, and then removed her body from the home, according to an arrest affidavit. 
 
 The graphic statements from Wesley Mathews were revealed in an arrest warrant released by police in Richardson, Tex., on Tuesday morning. 
 
 Mathews “had been trying to get the 3 year old girl to drink her milk in the garage” early Oct. 7, the affidavit said. “Wesley Mathews said she wouldn’t listen to him.” 
 
 At that point, Mathews said that 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. 
 
 Then, he told police, he removed her body from the home. 
 
 Mathews provided the “alternate statement of events” to detectives the day after Sherin’s body was found, Richardson police said. He has been charged with injury to a child, a first-degree felony punishable by up to life in prison, and is being held on a $1 million bond, police said. 
 
 
 
 Wesley Mathews. (Richardson Texas Police Department via AP) 
 
 Mathews had previously claimed that his adopted daughter, Sherin, went missing Oct. 7 after he sent her alone into an alley as punishment for refusing to drink her milk. 
 
 But Monday night — not long after authorities said they had “most likely” found the girl’s body — police said Mathews “voluntarily arrived at the Richardson Police Station with his attorney and asked to speak with detectives.” 
 
 He revealed the new details and was arrested. 
 
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 On Tuesday, police said they used dental records to confirm the body was Sherin’s. 
 
 Her body was discovered by officers and search dogs examining a culvert near Spring Valley and Bowser roads, less than a mile from the family’s home in the suburb of 100,000 about 15 miles north of Dallas. 
 
 Richardson Police Chief Jimmy Spivey vowed to bring to justice whomever is responsible. 
 
 Monday’s arrest was Mathews’s second in the case. He was arrested on child abandonment and endangerment charges the day Sherin went missing but had been released on bail. 
 
 As part of his bail condition, he was required to surrender his passport and wear an electronic monitoring bracelet so authorities could track him at all times, according to the Dallas Morning News. 
 
 Earlier Monday, Mathews and his wife, Sini, attended a court hearing to determine whether they could regain custody of their biological daughter. 
 
 The 4-year-old had been taken into custody by Child Protective Services and placed in foster care after Sherin was reported missing. The judge postponed the hearing until Nov. 13 to give Mathews time to hire a civil attorney, a spokeswoman for CPS told the Associated Press. 
 
 “We do have the names of some relatives who have expressed interest in taking care of her,” said the spokeswoman, Marissa Gonzales. “We can begin looking into those relatives, but it is entirely up to the judge where she is placed.” 
 
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 After the hearing, the father’s attorney, Rafael De La Garza, told the Dallas Morning News that his client was “mourning the death of his child.” De La Garza did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 
 
 The murky details of Sherin’s disappearance have transfixed the Dallas area for most of this month. 
 
 Her father originally told investigators that he looked outside 15 minutes after he sent Sherin into the alley but that she was gone, according to police affidavits. 
 
 Not yet too worried, the father said, he then did a load of laundry, according to the affidavit. He waited until after sunrise before he reported the disappearance to police. They began searching for the 22-pound girl last seen wearing a pink top, black pajama bottoms and pink flip-flops. 
 
 Detectives and FBI agents searched the Mathews house midweek and subsequently announced that someone left in the family’s sport-utility vehicle about 4 a.m. on the day she disappeared. That vehicle returned home within the hour, they said. 
 
 Police said Sherin’s mother was asleep during the incident and has not been charged. Her attorney said she has cooperated with authorities in trying to help identify Sherin’s body. 
 
 Mathews and his wife adopted Sherin about two years ago from an orphanage in India, said Sgt. Kevin Perlich, a Richardson police spokesman. Mathews told police that Sherin was malnourished and had to be on a special diet to gain weight. 
 
 Herman Wong contributed to this post. 
 
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 Wesley Mathews is escorted by police during his transfer to Dallas County jail in Dallas, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Mathews, the father of 3-year-old Sherin Mathew, a missing toddler whose body was found in a culvert under a road in suburban Dallas, has changed his story to say the girl didn't wander... (Associated Press) 
 
 DALLAS (AP) — The owner of a now-closed orphanage in India where a young girl was living before a Texas couple adopted her last year says the child had no difficulty eating despite her adoptive father's account to police when reporting her missing. 
 
 The body of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews was found Sunday in suburban Dallas in a culvert under a road about a half-mile from her parents' home. Police and volunteers had been searching for the girl since Oct. 7. 
 
 Investigators have said that her father, Wesley Mathews, initially told them he had sent the girl outside at 3 a.m. on Oct. 7 to stand near a tree across the alley from the family's fence because she refused to drink her milk. He said he went to check on her after about 15 minutes. 
 
 Mathews told police the girl had been malnourished when she was adopted and needed to eat whenever she was awake to help her gain weight. But orphanage owner Babitha Kumari told television station WFAA the girl had no problems and that Wesley and Sini Mathews appeared loving when they were going through the adoption process. 
 
 "The child had no problem at all when she was here, neither in drinking milk or eating," Kumari said. 
 
 A phone call to the international adoption agency believed to have helped the couple adopt Sherin was not returned Wednesday. 
 
 Wesley Mathews was initially charged with endangering or abandoning a child after reporting the girl missing on Oct. 7. He changed his story to police Monday, saying the girl choked on milk and died in the family's garage before he took her body away. He was arrested and charged with felony injury to a child, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison. 
 
 Mathews was transferred to the Dallas County jail on Wednesday, which is routine for inmates charged with higher level felonies. The Dallas County Sheriff's Department said he has been placed on suicide watch. 
 
 A judge reviewed his bond and left it at $1 million. 
 
 Mitch Nolte, an attorney for Sini Mathews, said in a written statement Wednesday that she has submitted to several long interviews with police since Oct. 7, and because she had nothing to do with the "death or removal" of the child's body, her lawyers see no need for her to "endure further police interrogation." 
 
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 Information from: WFAA-TV, http://www.wfaa.com
– A 3-year-old girl who was sent outside in the wee hours of Saturday morning as punishment for not drinking her milk has not been seen since. Police say Wesley Mathews, 37, told them he sent his toddler daughter Sherin out of the family's Richardson, Texas, home around 3am and told her to stand outside near a tree about 100 feet from the house. He told police he returned for her 15 minutes later but she was gone; the family reported Sherin missing around 8am. An Amber Alert was issued for her, but has since timed out and was discontinued Monday afternoon due to a lack of new information in the case, NBC DFW reports. Wesley Mathews was arrested Saturday on a charge of abandoning or endangering a child. Texas Child Protective Services removed Sherin's 4-year-old sister from the home Monday and placed her in protective custody. CPS says it has had past "contact" with the family but would not divulge details. Sherin has "developmental issues and ... limited verbal communication skills," per police. She was adopted from an orphanage in India two years ago. One member of the family's church calls the little girl "the cutest baby in our church," and a church elder says the girl's mother, who is not currently facing charges, is "very much worried and depressed." The tree where Wesley Mathews allegedly sent his daughter is behind a fence and across an alley from the family's home, the Dallas News reports. Per a police report cited by CBS DFW, "Wesley Mathews ... told [the detective] he knew coyotes had been seen in the alley where he left his daughter."