US Army investigation finds Vanessa Guillen was sexually harassed
Army facing new questions over treatment of specialist Vanessa Guillen
Replay Video UP NEXT 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.
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Corrections: Based on corrected information from the Missouri Army National Guard and the U.S. Attorney s Office, this report has been updated to reflect David McKay s rank and former status as a National Guard member.
A one-time Army National Guard soldier pleaded guilty in Springfield federal court Thursday to sexually abusing four minors over several years while he was director of youth ministry at Fort Leonard Wood U.S. Army Base, prosecutors announced.
David J. McKay, 42, of Waynesville, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to one count of transporting a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and four counts of sexually abusing a minor.
Fox Nation host Nancy Grace interviews Guillen family attorney Natalie Khawam in Fox Nation’s A Fort Hood Investigation with Nancy Grace: Part 1.
A U.S. Army investigation into the murder of Spc. Vanessa Guillén last year found that she was sexually harassed by a supervisor on two occasions, but leadership at Fort Hood ignored her reports of the harassment and failed to take appropriate action.
The incidents of sexual harassment were not related to her murder and the fellow soldier accused of murdering her, Spc. Aaron Robinson, did not harass her, though he did harass another female soldier, according to the investigation.
July 23 in his barracks room at
Fort Bliss.
Fort Bliss, the El Paso-Juárez area and even other parts of
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Mexico, but Army investigators haven t found any signs indicating that is true. To date, we have found no credible evidence or information that supports that Pvt. Halliday is in
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U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command at
Fort Bliss, said in a statement. Halliday is assigned to D Battery, 1-
43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment,
11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command. The soldier s mother,
Patricia Halliday, suspects her son was the victim of foul play and that someone in his unit knows more than they are telling.
Former Fort Leonard Wood youth director pleads guilty to child sexual abuse
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An Army National Guard officer pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to sexually abusing four minors over several years while he was director of the youth ministry at Fort Leonard Wood U.S. Army Base.
David J. McKay, 42, of Waynesville, Missouri, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to one count of transporting a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and four counts of sexually abusing a minor.
McKay, an Army National Guard Major Sergeant, was the youth ministry director for the Religious Services Office at Fort Leonard Wood. By pleading guilty Thursday, McKay admitted that he sexually abused four victims, ranging in age from 11 to 17 years old, on dozens of occasions from 2010 to 2017.