So based on where this child was found I think we can safely say she wasn't a resident of the immediate area. So the question is why would the person(s) who dumped the body know that the dumpster was at that location? According to an article linked up thread, the house has been under renovation for several years which means it could have been there for a while. However, I can't see many residents in that area, though, being okay with staring at a big ugly dumpster for several years. Even building permits have a life span. I checked the history of the home and I think it's undergone several owners in the last while.
Like a poster said, across Bloor St just further west is a densely populated high rise community that supports a lot of new immigrants from all over the world. While there is an international flavour of St. James Town, most of the residents are of Filipino, Chinese and various east Asian immigrants with some Somalians. African immigrants usually migrate to the north west part of Toronto. Lots of Ethiopian, Somalian and other African nationalities including those that came from the Caribbean.
I agree that this little girl was probably put there by her caretakers. I can't say whether she met foul play or died through misadventure. No PM has provided COD. I don't think she was wrapped with care, though, because tossing a child in a dumpster is about the least likely a place someone with remorse would utilize, imo. It was expedient, that's it.
I keep looking at that first piece of fabric. It doesn't look like any type of traditional fabric that might represent an African ethnic design. It does look like it comes from India or Goa or even Tibet. I've seen saris that have a plain body with a border of an intricate design similar to the fabric shown. I wish they would give some indication as to the size of it. Is it as long as a scarf, is it part of a sari? What kind of fabric? I'd like to know what weight it is, it looks kind of gauzy. Initially I thought it might be embroidered but on closer inspection it seems kind of lightweight.
One of the things I found when investigating immigrants in St James Town I discovered there is an indigenous group of Filipinos that are called black Filipinos. They are called Negritos in the Philippines. Here's a link to the info.
Growing up, I often heard East Asians refer to Filipinos, as the "Blacks of Asia", but never really thought much of it. The indigenous Black Filipinos....
worldawayfromhome.com
When reviewing the racial groups of India there are four main ones: the Negritos, the Mongoloids, the Proto-Australoids and the Mediterraneans. Here's a link:
Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example,
www.kerala-travel-tourism.com
So it seems like rather than zeroing in on African ethnicities it is just as likely that this little person could be of Indian or Filipino ethnicity. Filipino because of the close proximity to St. James Town and Indian because of that fabric. Unfortunately, like it was mentioned in the earlier link, these ethnicities are usually at the lowest economic strata in their society so the ability to emigrate to Canada from those areas where the Negritos live is highly unlikely.