The Richardson father accused of killing 3-year-old Sherin Mathews last October had his bail significantly reduced Wednesday.

Wesley Mathews' bail was lowered from $1 million to $500,000 for the capital murder charge, from $250,000 to $100,000 for tampering with physical evidence, and from $1 million to $500,000 for injury to a child with serious bodily injury.

Mathews' attorney Rafael de la Garza wrote in a petition for his bail reduction that the amounts were "excessive, oppressive and beyond the financial means of Wesley Mathews."

He asked that Mathews' bail be reduced to $250,000 so that he could be released pending trial. The judge lowered the total bail to $1.1 million, half of what it was but four times as much as the defense was seeking.

Prosecutor Eren Price said the bail amount was set high, but that's because the "facts of Sherin Mathews' death are extraordinarily rare."

Richardson police Detective Victor Diaz said the investigation into Sherin's disappearance took the "most resources of any of the cases I've ever done."

They searched for weeks before finding Sherin's body dumped in a culvert.

After the child's body was found, Wesley Mathews told investigators that Sherin was drinking milk, choked on it and "died in his arms," Diaz testified during the hearing Wednesday.

Mathews said he put her body in a trash bag and put it in the back of his SUV before dumping her a mile from their home. The girl's body was found two weeks later.

De la Garza argues that the $2.5 million bail was "excessive." He said Mathews was complying with the bond requirements after he was released when he was originally charged with child abandonment.

He said that despite Mathews' having few ties to North Texas, there's "nothing in my client's immediate history that would suggest he's a flight risk."

Wesley Mathews, 37. (Richardson Police Department)

The capital murder indictment against Sherin's father says he killed her "by a manner and means unknown to the grand jury," The Dallas Morning News reported then.

If convicted, he could face the death penalty or an automatic sentence of life without parole.

Bond for Sini Mathews, Sherin's mother, has not been lowered from its original $250,000 for a charge of child endangerment and abandoning. She remains in the Dallas County Jail.

Wesley and Sini Mathews adopted the girl from India in June 2016. Mother Teresa Anath Seva Sansthan, a now-closed orphanage, told the Indian CNN affiliate News18 that the girl has been found by a passer-by after she was apparently dumped in the bushes. Employees of the nonprofit called the child Saraswati, the name of a Hindu river goddess.

Sherin Mathews (Richardson Police Department )

The Mathewses gave up custody of Sherin's 4-year-old sister in January, "given the circumstances and the pending criminal case," The News reported then.

The girl was placed with relatives in the Houston area.