Identity has not yet been confirmed. LE is being very tight-lipped on this; still have not confirmed sex of child in latest news conference with; have not yet confirmed that it is Somer.
I almost hope it IS Somer, because if it isn’t, then it seems nearly certain that the immediate area has had two young children killed within the last 24 hours.
I still think, though, that there’s a real possibility this was an accident — lost and frightened child crawls into a dumpster and falls asleep, and then gets dumped into a truck with the early morning trash pick-up. Or possibly even the same evening, before or shortly after she was reported missing, because I’m having trouble picturing law enforcement allowing any trash trucks to leave the area without a dog-sniffing, once the search was underway. If a little kid who was upset and scared went into a dumpster to hide/cry, even if she was still wide awake, she might be scared into silence by a big truck backing up to the dumpster, and a strange man walking back to hook the dumpster onto the truck — might well not have understood what happens next. Just like kids that age are prone to hiding under their beds or in a closet when their home is on fire.