“They want me to sleep with them”: the Mexican soldier Ana Fernanda suffered sexual harassment before dying

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The mother of the 21-year-old soldier Ana Fernanda Basaldua Ruiz, born in Mexico, pointed out that before she died she was sexually harassed by her companions and particularly by a man of Puerto Rican origin. She demanded that there be transparency in the case and that justice be done.

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Eulalia Alejandra Ruiz Zarco, mother of the US soldier, said that a higher-ranking Army subject harassed her and was upset with her because she had rejected him a couple of times. In addition, that she had received sexual proposals from her colleagues at the base.

“He told me: ‘Mom, everyone wants me to sleep with them, but they are really assholes.’ The woman said that she noticed that her daughter was sad about her because “very strong things were happening to her,” which she still could not tell her and she hoped to see her soon to finally tell her.

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Before she was 18 years old, Ana Fernanda decided to move to the United States with her father, a US citizen who had married her mother, a Mexican, years before, in the municipality of Tacámbaro, Michoacán.

(Photo: Facebook, Alejandra Ruiz Zarco)

When she stayed with her father, she managed to put her papers in order so that they would give her nationality. Later, she decided to join the ranks of the US Army, where he was about to complete three years of service; however, she was the victim of sexual harassment, then she disappeared and was finally found dead.

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Mrs. Eulalia pointed out that her daughter was concentrated at the Fort Hood military camp in Killeen, Texas, where she was working as a combat engineer. According to the Dallas News, in this unit there have been homicides, suicides and sexual assaults in the troops in recent years.

And it is that in 2020 the soldier Vanessa Guillén, from the same military base, was reported missing and later found dead. She transcended that she was hammered to death by a colleague of hers, who later dismembered her and buried her in a place far from the field.

Aaron Robinson, Guillén’s alleged murderer, was 20 years old when he committed suicide at the time the police were going to question him after finding the remains of the young woman almost two months after her disappearance. His then partner, Cecily Ann Aguilar, was accused of complicity for helping to hide the victim’s remains near a river in Killeen, Texas.

Ana Fernanda Basaldúa Ruiz, Mexican soldier located without life (Special)

The victim’s mother regretted that several days after her daughter’s lifeless body was found, the militia still does not give them precise information about how she died.

“The first time they told us something, it was that they had found her lying around and that when they took her to the infirmary, well, there was nothing to do anymore that she had died.”

Later, when they spoke with the sergeant in charge of Ana Fernanda, Patrick Sullivan, he told them that the young woman had committed suicide and that she had used a rope to achieve her goal. However, her mother doubts that version, because she does not believe that the young woman herself could have taken her life.

He accused that those responsible for the militia have not sent them evidence such as photographs, videos, or anything about the case, since the only thing they have known has been told verbally.

Ana Fernanda Basaldúa Ruiz, Mexican soldier located without life (Special)

“They say they are investigating, but they do not give us great detail. I ask you in the most loving way, in the most humane way, to clarify all our doubts and to present us with evidence and everything about what happened to my daughter.” he said he for El Universal.

The United States Army, for its part, said that they were in communication with the relatives, who had been informed about the death and were providing psychological help.

“We are deeply saddened by the irreparable loss of the soldier and extend our condolences to her father, mother and brother”

For the moment, the soldier’s mother requested a humanitarian visa to be able to pick up her daughter’s body, return with her to Mexico and give her a holy burial in a cemetery in Tacámbaro, where she is from.

(With information from EFE)

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