The seek for a lacking six-year-old Texas boy who has not been seen for months is now a dying investigation, police mentioned this week.
The boy, Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, was final seen in October at a hospital when his mom, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, was there to provide delivery to twins, Everman police mentioned.
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Police performed a welfare test March 20 on the household’s house, however Noel was not there. Two days later, Rodriguez-Singh, her husband, and 6 different kids received on a aircraft and traveled to India, Everman Police Chief Craig Spencer mentioned.
“Primarily based on the totality of the circumstances, together with the proof accessible to us right now, it has led to a really unlucky, unimaginable and devastating conclusion — that Noel is probably going deceased,” Spencer mentioned at a information convention Thursday (native time ).
A physique has not been discovered. Police mentioned they’re working to develop further areas to go looking, and a few searches have already begun.
The seek for Noel has included utilizing canine that may detect human stays, and digging up a just lately poured concrete porch on the property the place the household had been staying, police have mentioned.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Rodriguez-Singh and her husband, Arshdeep Singh, on a cost of abandoning and endangering a toddler.
Spencer mentioned the police need them arrested and extradited again to america. Investigators consider they’re nonetheless in India, he mentioned.
Suspicions of kid abuse
The search started on March 20, when the Texas Division of Household Providers requested police to conduct a welfare test on the boy, officers have mentioned.
On the time, Rodriguez-Singh claimed Noel was in Mexico along with his organic father, which investigators later decided was not true, police mentioned.
Interviews with kin and a witness counsel Rodriguez-Singh had been abusive to Noel, together with depriving him of meals and water and at one level putting him along with her keys, Spencer mentioned Thursday.
The final time the kid had been seen by a medical skilled was in July for speech remedy, he mentioned. Different skilled appointments about that point had been missed.
Police mentioned investigators have since realized Rodriguez-Singh had beforehand made feedback that the boy was “evil” or “possessed.”
In a search warrant obtained by NBC 5 on Tuesday, wherein the boy’s identify has been redacted, the Rodriguez-Singh’s brother, Cantarino Rodriguez, mentioned she instructed her mom that she offered Noel at a Fiesta Market to an unknown girl and that the lady threatened to inform Baby Protecting Providers if she tried to get him again.
Within the search warrant, police mentioned no different data was offered in regards to the supposed purchaser and there have been no particulars on when the alleged transaction occurred.
Spencer said during a news conference on March 27 that there have been rumors in the neighborhood that the kid had been offered however that they’d discovered no proof that urged he’d been trafficked.
When the mom, her husband and their kids flew to India, there have been no warrants for them or anything that will have prevented them from getting on a aircraft, police have mentioned.
Federal companies are aiding, Spencer mentioned this week. A legal investigation is constant, he mentioned.
“I perceive that this isn’t the information that we had been all hoping for, or praying for,” Spencer mentioned.
