An woman convicted last year after her boyfriend’s 9-year-old daughter was found sealed into a tote in a Kentucky storage facility has been brought to Indiana to face further charges.
Chyanne Porter pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and two counts of criminal abuse of a child under 12 years old in Daviess County, Kentucky, where the body of Alianna Maya Gomez-Alvarez was found in an Owensboro storage facility in 2022, the Owensboro Times reported.
Jose Gomez-Alvarez, the girl’s father, pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence. He was extradited to Indiana to face charges last April.
As CrimeOnline reported, Porter and her boyfriend, Gomez-Alvarez, were arrested in October 2022 after the body was found during a missing persons investigation in a storage facility belonging to Porter.
Investigators learned from the missing girl’s siblings that the girl had died at their home in Indiana when they lived in Evansville, the Times reported. The three biological children of Gomez-Alvarez reported mistreatment at the hands of both their father and his girlfriend and that ultimately the 9-year-old girl “began having convulsions” and died.
“When Porter returned home, she bound [the 9-year-old’s] body in wrapping and placed the body in a plastic tub with the bodies of other dead cats and dogs,” an affidavit said. “She then closed the lid and secured the lid with duct tape. At some point thereafter, the tub was then stored at a storage unit in Owensboro by Days Inn.”
The affidavit said that Porter and Gomez-Alvarez regularly abused his three children — including not feeding them, forcing them to stay in the basement, and other forms of abuse — but not the two children they shared together, WFIE reported.
Porter was booked Tuesday into the Vanderburgh County jail in Indiana, where she is charged with nine counts of neglect of dependent, obstruction of justice, abuse of corpse, and failure to report a dead body — the same charges levied against Gomez Alvarez.
Both are being held without bond, jail records show.
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[Featured image: Chyanne Porter and Jose Gomez-Alvarez/Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office]