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"I sat there, I prayed to the Lord God. I did not know what to do. Mathews said he made the decisions he made in October 2017 out of fear and that now, looking back, he has a hard time understanding how he made those decisions.

"Sherin's little body was so badly decomposed, due to the actions of this defendant, the medical examiner could not determine an official cause of death which could have dramatically changed the way we were able to prosecute this case," prosecutor Jason Fine told jurors during the trial Wednesday.

Speaking directly to Mathews, Fine said, "You told investigators Sherin's death was a mistake but by your own words, you caused the death of your daughter and put her lifeless body in a trash bag and disposed of her.

Mathews, 39, who was also charged with capital murder in the death of his daughter, has not admitting to killing Sherin, but rather to not seeking help for her as she was dying by either calling 911 or waking up his wife, who is a nurse.

Wesley Mathews Trial

According to Mathews' latest account of what happened that evening, which has changed since the girl was first reported missing, Sherin choked and died when he "physically assisted" her in drinking milk.

Mathews, however, remained adamant throughout the trial that he did not kill his daughter.

Wednesday morning, June 26, 2019, Wesley Mathews was back on the stand under cross examination from prosecutors questioning statements made the day before -- some, they said, were different, or more detailed, than what he'd shared previously with investigators.

"I truly am sorry. When shown the bag that Sherin was in, Mathews testified it was a "blue" bag rather than a "trash" one, which prosecutors continually called.

He also took issue with the prosecutors saying he "dumped" her body, and he called the culvert "a place to protect her body."

On Wednesday, he referred to the way he handled Sherin's death as a "mistake" due to not seeking the proper help.

Prosecutor: "When you caused her death you keep referring to it as a mistake.

Mathews also said, contrary to the statement made by the state Monday, he did mention Sherin in letters he sent from the Dallas County Jail.

During cross, Mathews also told the court he did not dump his daughter in a trash bag, but rather placed her in the culvert in a bag to protect her body.

Mathews took the stand in his own defense Tuesday, and admitting to lies and mistakes he made with his daughter's care.

I don't have words to express how sorry I am to these fine officers, these fine people who were full of love and concern for my baby Sherin and they devoted a lot of time and effort and I could have easily stopped that."

Mathews also addressed questions about why he didn't immediately tell his wife, Sini, or police about what happened.

I don't call that a mistake, I call it murder."

A neighbor, that lives one block away from the Mathew's home, reacts to Wesley Mathews sentence. He was also frequently asked about the lies he told authorities during the investigation.

Mathews admitted to putting Sherin's body inside a bag and into the culvert.

We don't know.

He said she began to drink the milk while he did some light cleaning and other things around the house.

He said he wasn't sure how much she'd had to eat or drink that day, but was concerned that she hadn't enough milk -- he said a feeding therapist recommend that she drink 16 ounces of milk each day. He's been following the case from the beginning.

He recalls the moment inside the courtroom when Wesley Mathews was sentenced to life in prison.

“I went numb inside.

I had tears of joy. I could not absorb what had happened.