US Army investigation finds Vanessa Guillen was sexually harassed

A U.S. Army investigation has found that Vanessa Guillen, the soldier murdered by a fellow soldier, did experience sexual harassment as her family has claimed.

A long-awaited U.S. Army investigation released Friday has determined that murdered Spc. Vanessa Guillen was sexually harassed by a supervisor, as her family had claimed, and that the leaders in her unit at Fort Hood, Texas, did not take appropriate action after she stepped forward. Twenty-one soldiers have now been reprimanded or disciplined as a result of their handling of the Guillen case and investigators have also found that the incidents of harassment were not related to Guillen's murder and were not carried out by the fellow soldier who is alleged to have killed her in 2020. The command investigation, known by the Army regulation 15-6, determined that Guillen was sexually harassed on two occasions by one of her supervisors. "SPC Guillen was sexually harassed by a supervisor. This supervisor created an intimidating, hostile environment," the report said. "The unit leadership was informed of the harassment as well as the supervisor’s counterproductive leadership, and failed to take appropriate action."