The dismembered body of a missing teenage TikTok influencer has been discovered in a Peru water plant clogging up its river filtration grid, according to reports.
Mutilated remains of 19-year-old Fabiola Alejandra Caicedo Pina, known as “China Baby” on the platform, were found inside the plant in the Peruvian capital of Lima by police officers carrying out routine inspections of the site, Panamericana reported.
Forensic crews were able to identify the body parts through Pina’s distinctive tattoos, such as the one on her back reading “Paula Sophia” along with a date, the outlet reported.
Workers at the plant found the remains June 9, four days after Pina shared her last TikTok video with her 5,000 followers, Argentinian outlet infobae said.
Parts of her body were then found trapped in the river filtration grid within the water plant about a week later, El Comercio reported.
Graphic video shows crews pulling the teenager’s remains out of the plant last month.
Some of her body parts are still missing, infobae said.
Pina left her native Venezuela when she was still a minor to live with her then-boyfriend, Meiner Jimenez Castillo, her family said.
“She never told us she was leaving. She just left, and that was it,” a relative told La Republica.
In 2022, Castillo was found dead in Lima by suicide, although his family has long accused Pina of having a connection to his death and harassed her on social media, the outlet reported.
The brutal nature of Pina’s death is similar to methods used by human traffickers, according to the Peruvian National Police, who are investigating the crime.
So far, no suspects have been announced in connection with her death.
