The dismembered physique of a lacking teenage TikTok influencer has been found in a Peru water plant clogging up its river filtration grid, in response to studies.
Mutilated stays of 19-year-old Fabiola Alejandra Caicedo Pina, generally known as “China Child” on the platform, had been discovered contained in the plant within the Peruvian capital of Lima by law enforcement officials finishing up routine inspections of the location, Panamericana reported.
Forensic crews had been in a position to determine the physique elements by way of Pina’s distinctive tattoos, such because the one on her again studying “Paula Sophia” together with a date, the outlet reported.
Employees on the plant discovered the stays June 9, 4 days after Pina shared her final TikTok video along with her 5,000 followers, Argentinian outlet infobae mentioned.
Elements of her physique had been then discovered trapped within the river filtration grid inside the water plant a couple of week later, El Comercio reported.
Graphic video exhibits crews pulling {the teenager}’s stays out of the plant final month.
A few of her physique elements are nonetheless lacking, infobae mentioned.
Pina left her native Venezuela when she was nonetheless a minor to dwell along with her then-boyfriend, Meiner Jimenez Castillo, her household mentioned.
“She by no means informed us she was leaving. She simply left, and that was it,” a relative informed La Republica.
In 2022, Castillo was discovered lifeless in Lima by suicide, though his household has lengthy accused Pina of getting a connection to his loss of life and harassed her on social media, the outlet reported.
The brutal nature of Pina’s loss of life is just like strategies utilized by human traffickers, in response to the Peruvian Nationwide Police, who’re investigating the crime.
Thus far, no suspects have been introduced in connection along with her loss of life.
