Vanessa Guillen, a twenty-year-old female army officer, was last seen alive on April 22 2020. Her murderer has been identified as Aaron David Robinson, a male twenty-year-old Army Specialist, who bludgeoned her to death with a hammer inside an armoury room. Him and his girlfriend, Cecily Aguiler, dismembered, burned and buried her near Leon River, Killeen, Texas. Aaron Robinson committed suicide after law enforcement agencies tried to contact him.
Before her disappearance, Guillen’s family says she was being sexually assaulted by an Army sergeant but was too afraid to report him. Her family claims she was murdered for speaking up about her sexual harassment and the Army tried to cover it up.
In 2019, The Pentagon reported 1,021 formal sexual harassment complaints in the army. Sexual assault allegations are handled differently in the military. If a civilian is sexually assaulted, they would go to the police and prosecution decisions would be made by prosecutors. However, in the military, prosecution decisions are placed on a commander who probably knows the offender, which often ends up in lenient prosecutions, or even none. Vanessa Guillen's story is a perfect example as to why women are afraid to come forward about their assaults. Where is her justice?
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