Police in Canada are trying to identify a young black girl whose body was found in a garbage can in Toronto, a grim discovery that shook the city and experienced investigators are investigating the case.
The Toronto Police Department said Thursday that the body found Monday in a wealthy neighborhood was that of a young black girl believed to be between four and seven years old.
Homicide investigators have been appointed in the case and forwarded descriptions of the child with cases of missing persons across the country, but acknowledged that the child may not have been reported missing.
“Our first priority now is to establish the identity of this little girl. Investigators will not leave a stone unturned, inspection inspector Hank Eadsing told reporters. “Kids don’t just die.”
An auction was held on Wednesday, but police have not yet determined the cause of death.
Police say the level of decomposition suggests the girl may have died as long ago as last summer.
Officials were called to a residential construction site in Rosedale, one of the city’s richest neighborhoods, on Monday. Officers found the girl’s body wrapped in a knitted blanket in a plastic bag, which was also wrapped in a blanket.
Police said the girl was of African or mixed African descent, was three and a half feet tall and had a slight physique. She had four short tails, two of which were braided and tied with blue and black rubber bands.
Investigators believe her body was left on the construction site between April 28 and May 2, a place near a highway and near a residential building. Although there are no cameras aimed directly at the garbage can, police have begun collecting videos from the area.
Toronto Mayor John Torrey called the discovery “an indescribable tragedy” and called on anyone who could recognize the blankets or know of a girl to fit the police description to come out.
Residents had already turned the front of the property into a makeshift monument to the child. Some had put flowers, others a card that read, “Little one, we pray the sky has dried your tears.”
Idsinga said investigators would not stop until they received answers.
“We will get to the bottom of things, whatever it takes.
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