Child advocates are urging the province not to “look away” from the death of a four-year-old girl whose remains were found in a Toronto dumpster in 2022, calling for a coroner’s inquest to probe her time in Ontario’s child protection system and the still-mysterious circumstances of her death.
The Invisible Girl
The unthinkable discovery of her body shocked Toronto. For more than a year, police chased her identity. How did Neveah wind up dead in a dumpster?
“We must find the answers to: ‘How did this happen to this little child?’” said Irwin Elman, who served as the province’s Child Advocate from 2008 to 2019. “We must learn about where those errors in judgment lay and where the mistakes happened.”