Child tells police her 9-year-old sister was 'killed by my mom' leading to shocking new charges after arrest
Niamh Shackleton
Featured Image Credit: Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office
A woman who was already convicted of heinous crimes is now facing further charges.
In December 2024, Chyanne Porter was convicted of complicity in criminal abuse, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse after nine-year-old Alianna Maya Gomez-Alvarez's body was discovered in a tote bag in a storage unit in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Police say Alianna was one of three children that Porter's boyfriend, Jose Gomez-Alvarez, had from a previous relationship, and the pair had two shared kids as well.
Both Porter and her boyfriend were charged, and officials at the time determined Alianna had died of convulsions after being locked in the basement for an extended period of time, KTLV previously reported.
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After her conviction, Porter was booked into Daviess County, Kentucky, but she has now been transferred into the custody of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office in Indiana.
Porter has now been charged with nine additional counts, including neglect of a dependent, obstruction of justice, abuse of a corpse, and failure to report a dead body, Law & Crime reports. She was extradited on January 6.
According to US Weekly, Porter still has six years left of her sentence to serve in Kentucky.
Her extradition to Indiana comes following information Porter's children gave to police about how Alianna was treated before she died.
Per the affidavit seen by 14 News, Porter and Gomez-Alvarez allegedly abused their three children from previous relationships and would hit, choke, and not feed them.
Another of the children alleged that Alianna starved to death at their home in Evansville, Indiana, before she was transported to a storage unit 40 miles away in Owensboro.
"My mom never fed her," a child told investigators. "She was very very skinny. She got skinny when my mom didn’t feed her."
"My mom killed Alianna and then put her in the basement," they added.
While Porter and Gomez-Alvarez are said to have abused their three kids, they treated their shared children better.
Evansville Police Sergeant Anthony Aussieker said of the extremely sad case: "Those are the cases that are going to stick with you forever. That’s the most vulnerable people.
"We, as parents — speaking as a parent — that’s our number one job is to protect and nurture our children.
"These kids were not given that opportunity, it’s heartbreaking. So just thinking about those surviving children, hopefully they’re in a good, caring, stable environment and hopefully they’re flourishing and getting the treatment and the help that they need."
A start date for Porter’s impending trial in Indiana has not been set, and she has not yet entered pleas to the new criminal counts she's facing.
If you’ve been affected by any of these issues or want to speak to someone in confidence regarding the welfare of a child, the Childhelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, US Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.