A 6-year-old Texas boy whose mom has given varied tales to elucidate his absence since final fall is believed to be lifeless, police mentioned Thursday.
Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez was final seen across the time his mom gave beginning to twin women in October, Everman police Chief Craig Spencer mentioned at a information convention. He mentioned searches for the boy’s physique have been centered close to the household’s dwelling in Everman, positioned simply south of Fort Price.
Across the time that Noel was final seen, he was described as “showing unhealthy and malnourished,” Spencer mentioned. On March 31, arrest warrants on costs of abandoning and endangering a baby have been issued for the boy’s mom, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, and her husband, Arshdeep Singh.
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They’re believed to have flown to India on March 22 together with six youngsters. Two days earlier, police had been requested by the Texas Division of Household and Protecting Companies to do a welfare verify on the youngsters on the couple’s dwelling. Throughout that go to, Rodriguez-Singh instructed officers that Noel was staying with household in Mexico.
Spencer mentioned that Rodriguez-Singh “has been identified by family to be abusive and neglectful to Noel.” Additionally, he mentioned, investigators realized via interviews that Rodriguez-Singh had referred to Noel as “evil, possessed or having a demon in him” and believed he’d hurt the twins.
An indication displayed outdoors the Everman Civic Heart, on March 26, 2023, asks the neighborhood to name in with suggestions in regards to the disappearance of six-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez. (Madeleine Cook dinner/Star-Telegram through AP)
Police have mentioned that Noel suffers from quite a few bodily and developmental challenges.
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“Relations and witnesses acknowledged that meals and water have been usually withheld from Noel as a result of Cindy didn’t like altering Noel’s soiled diapers,” Spencer mentioned. “A relative even witnessed Cindy strike Noel within the face with keys as a result of he drank water.”
Spencer mentioned that on Nov. 1, 2022, Rodriguez-Singh acquired passport images for all the youngsters dwelling together with her aside from Noel. After which, the subsequent day, she utilized for passports for herself and all the youngsters aside from Noel.
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Spencer mentioned that in November, Rodriguez-Singh started to attempt to clarify Noel’s absence with “varied tales,” together with that he was both along with his organic father or aunt in Mexico, or that she’d bought him to a girl in a grocery retailer parking zone. Spencer mentioned that investigators have seemed into all of these tales and none have been true.
