A Hispanic soldier is found dead at Fort Hood, the same military base featured in the Vanessa Guillen case.

HOUSTON, Texas – Hispanic soldier identified as Ana Fernanda Basaldua RuizThe 21-year-old Mexican woman was found dead on Monday at the Fort Hood, Texas military base, where she had been for the past 15 months, according to local TV channel KWTX.

Basaldua was a combat engineer in the 1st Cavalry Division and the cause of her death is still under investigation.according to the information provided by the military base, the one where the soldier Vanessa Guillen she was reported missing and later found dead in 2020.

The Army indicated that they notified the soldier’s parents of the death and provided psychological support resources to the family and colleagues who served with Basaldua in the barracks.

“We are deeply saddened by the irreparable loss of a soldier and express our condolences to her father, mother and brother,” the army said in a statement signed by Commander Patrick Sullivan.

Soldier Basaldua told his parents that he was a victim of sexual harassmentThis is reported by the news portal.

Basaldua, who was born in Mexico and is a naturalized American, joined the military in 2020, although due to the coronavirus pandemic, she began her military training a year later at a military base in Texas, according to Telemundo Noticias.

She was set to complete her three-year contract in August, but according to what her father told Telemundo Noticias, she recently told him that “she’s more uncomfortable that her whole life has been wrong, that she wanted to die.” The man, Baldo Basaldua, who lives in California, last spoke to her on Saturday; on Sunday, the young woman no longer responded to her messages.

“The next day [lunes 13 marzo] I sent him messages and they didn’t come, the delivery didn’t appear anymore and I went to look for his whereabouts [satelital] and then it turned out that she was like in a park inside the base and that’s all, I just sent her a message that the one who dies will be sad for me, because I didn’t know anything about her, ”said the father of the soldier Telemundo Noticias.

As in the case of Vanessa Guillen

The death of another soldier in the same military camp is reminiscent of the case of Vanessa Guillen, who was killed with a hammer by a colleague who took her body and dismembered it before burying it in a remote location.

The alleged killer, 20-year-old Aaron Robinson, committed suicide as police prepared to question him after Guillen’s human remains emerged, almost two months after he disappeared.

Roninson’s partner, Cecily Ann Aguilar, was accused of being an accessory to helping to cover up a soldier’s remains near the Leon River in Killen, Texas.

Vanessa Guillen’s mother, Myra Guillen, said in a statement: “I am aware of the death of Ana Basaldua in Fort Hood, Texas. Rest in peace. She was only 21 years old… I will talk to my family soon, it is very sensitive for me to talk about something that I am not fully aware of yet, and this is also very sensitive for me… I need to gather my thoughts and then I can share them . I have also received a number of media interview requests, please wait.”

The case of soldier Vanessa Guillen prompted the passage of a law known as “I am Vanessa Guillen” to protect victims of sexual assault in the armed forces.

According to information from EFE, Telemundo News and KWTX.

Author: Maria Ortiz
Source: La Opinion

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