U.S. police confirm body found is that of missing Indian girl

The Richardson Police Department has rearrested the girl's foster father.

A makeshift memorial sits by a ditch drain, in Richardson, Texas on Oct. 23, 2017. Police said medical examiners used dental records to confirm that a body found over the weekend was that of a 3-year-old girl who disappeared from her suburban Dallas home earlier this month.

A three-year-old Indian girl who went missing for over two weeks is dead, U.S. police said on Tuesday.

The girl, who had developmental issues and limited verbal communication skills, was last seen outside her family’s backyard in Richardson city in Texas on October 7.

The Richardson Police earlier announced that they discovered the remains of a child in a tunnel beneath a road, expressing apprehension that it was “most likely” that of the missing girl. The body was found about 1 km from the house of her adoptive parents Wesley and Sini Mathews.

Police said medical examiners used dental records to identify the child. Her cause of death is still pending.

The Richardson Police Department has rearrested the foster father of the girl.

Mr. Mathews, 37, who hails from Kerala, was booked into the Richardson City Jail on a $1 million bond.

Mr. Mathews and his wife Sini reportedly adopted the girl two years ago from an orphanage in Bihar.