Sherin Mathews' foster father, accused of killing her, may face death

Wesley Mathews and Sherin Mathews

Prosecutors in Texas will decide in the coming weeks whether to seek the death penalty against the Indian-American adoptive father of 3-year-old toddler Sherin Mathews whose decomposed body was found in a culvert.

A grand jury in Dallas County, Texas, on Friday returned several charges, most notably capital murder, against Sherin's foster father Wesley Mathews. The 37-year-old man from Kerala is accused of killing Sherin in October last year. The indictment says Wesley killed Sherin "by a manner and means unknown to the grand jury," court records show. Authorities were tight-lipped at a press conference on Friday, saying they did not want to prejudice a jury and were continuing to invstigate the case.