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Vanessa Guillén: The woman who has revealed impunity for sexual abuse in the US Army

2021-06-19T18:51:29.506Z


His case gives name to the law that seeks to change the treatment of sexual violence and has focused on the scope and impunity of the abuses


On the morning of April 22, 2020, the soldier Vanessa Guillén, 20, disappeared. She had been harassed for months at the Fort Hood base (Texas, United States), in the eyes of her fellow units and without anyone taking action. His story emerged when his body, dismembered by another soldier, appeared two months later near the base. It has taken more than a year for the Army to consider proof of the harassment, although not by the man who killed her. Twenty-one senior officials have been relieved or punished for the serious mistakes made at each point in the process. Now it gives its name to a law that seeks to change the way in which sexual violence is treated in the Army. In the attached video, Gloria Guillén, her mother,She remembers everything that happened from her daughter's entry into the Fort Hood military base in 2018 until her death just two years later.

Source: elparis

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