A Texas woman who fled to India while police investigated the disappearance of her 6-year-old son was indicted this week on new charges.
Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, captured in India last month and brought back to Texas to face a murder charge in the presumed death of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, was indicted Monday on charges of abandoning a child without intent to return, leaving a child without proper care, and two counts of injury to a child, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
Rodriguez-Singh has also been charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Rodriguez-Singh was added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list last month — before or after her capture in India is not clear — following her October 2023 indictment for the murder of Rodriguez-Alvarez, as CrimeOnline reported. She was back in Texas on August 21 to face charges.
Rodriguez-Alvarez was reported missing in March 2023, and Rodriguez-Singh, her husband, Arshdeep Singh, and their six children fled to India later that month after they were questioned by police.
Noel was not on board that flight.
Police said the boy was last seen alive in October 2022 after Rodriguez-Singh gave birth to twins. He reportedly looked malnourished at the time. When the indictment was announced, police said that Rodriguez-Singh called her son “evil,” did not want to feed him or give him water because she did not want to change his diaper, and hit him with car keys.
Rodriguez-Singh allegedly told family members that she sold her son to an unknown woman, but police said they found no evidence to support this claim. They also found no evidence to support her one-time claim that the boy was living in Mexico with his biological father.
Rodriguez-Singh is being held in the Tarrant County jail on a $10 million bond.
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Featured image: Cindy Rodriguez-Singh/Tarrant County Jail and Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez/Everman Police Department]
