Tarrant County grand jury indicts fugitive Everman mom on new charges
A Tarrant County grand jury on Monday indicted a former FBI 10 Most Wanted fugitive on new charges in the death of her son, according to a court document.
Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, apprehended by the FBI in India last month, now faces charges of abandoning a child without intent to return, leaving a child without proper care, and two counts of injury to a child, according to the document.
The new charges are in addition to Rodriguez-Singh’s initial charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and capital murder of a person under 10 years of age.
The mother is accused of killing her disabled 6-year-old son Noel before fleeing the country for India in March 2023, the Star-Telegram previously reported. Noel is presumed dead, but his remains have not been found.
A concerned relative from out of town alerted Texas Child Protective Services in March 2023 that Noel hadn’t been seen since the previous fall.
On March 20, police went to the family’s home on Wisteria Drive in Everman to check on the child, which is when authorities say Rodriguez-Singh lied to them about the boy’s whereabouts.
Investigators reached Noel’s biological father in Mexico on March 23, and he denied that the 6-year-old was with him. Federal authorities confirmed there was no record of Noel crossing the border into Mexico. Police tried to contact Rodriguez-Singh the following day, but were unsuccessful.
An Amber Alert was issued for Noel the morning of March 25. That night police learned that Rodriguez-Singh, along with her husband, Arshdeep Singh, and six of her other children, had left the United States a few days before.
The new charges originate from that fall, before Rodriguez-Singh left for India, according to the indictment.
On Oct. 25, 2022, Rodriguez-Singh “did intentionally or knowingly cause the death” of Noel “by a manner and means unknown to the grand jury,” the indictment reads. On that same day, Rodriguez allegedly withheld food, water and medical care from Noel and left him in an undisclosed location.
The grand jury also charged the mother with abandoning Noel on Oct. 25 without the intent to return, according to the indictment.
Rodriguez-Singh is being held in the Tarrant County Jail on a $10 million bond, according to jail records. No bond has been set on the new charges.
This story was originally published September 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM.
