New York, November 1 (IANS). An American woman who fled to India with her Indian-origin husband in March this year has been indicted by a Texas state grand jury for the murder of her missing six-year-old special needs son.
Cindy Rodriguez-Singh moved to India with Arshdeep Singh and her six other children. Shortly before this, Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez was found missing during an investigation at the family home in Everman.
Police are continuing to search for Noel, who was last seen in late October or early November last year at a hospital where her twin sisters were born.
Witnesses told police that he looked “unwell and malnourished”.
Cindy abused and neglected the child, police said. She is charged with murder, injury to a child and abandoning Noelle.
“These indictments will be helpful in our effort to capture and extradite Cindy,” Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer said at a news conference Monday.
Noel was one of 10 children born to Cindy. Three siblings lived with their grandparents, while Noel and the others lived with their mother in Everman.
At the time of the investigation, Cindy told the police that Noel was in Mexico with his biological father, which investigators later found to be false.
The police investigation found that Cindy had neglected and abused Noel. He was also deprived of food and water.
She had reportedly told relatives that the child was “haunted”.
According to multiple media reports, Noel was born prematurely and suffered from multiple physical disabilities.
The FBI and other US federal agencies are working to extradite Cindy after an arrest warrant is issued against her for abandoning and endangering Noel.
According to local media reports, Arshdeep had allegedly thrown a carpet into an outdoor dustbin a day before the family left for India.
Noel’s body has not been found yet and the search is on.
According to NBC 5, in April, dogs assisting investigators at the child’s home on Wisteria Drive discovered a rug and soil that had been removed from under a recently installed porch at a home the family rented. And alerted.”
Police said the “alert” indicated that human remains were present at some time in the past, however, no physical evidence was found.
Spencer said the failure to find Noelle would not prevent them from filing charges against his mother.
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