Found Deceased NCIS searching for Missing VA Sailor Angelina Petra Resendiz,21,last seen May 29

[Knox]

The murder of Vanessa Guillen sparked outrage across the U.S. and led to a surge of questions surrounding women’s deaths in the military including: the correlation between sexual assault or sexual harassment and murder, deaths ruled suicides by the military but disputed by the family, and the obvious disproportionate murders and sexual assaults of women of color.

While conducting our research of suspicious deaths of women in the military, we found that of the 53 women included in our research, 13 percent had experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault during their military service.

Unfortunately, Vanessa Guillen is not the first case to receive attention for sexual assault and harassment.
Every two years since 2006, the Department of Defense releases a report on the prevalence of sexual assault in active duty. Additionally, about every year the DOD releases an annual report on sexual assault in the military that details sexual assault report rates and the programs focusing on sexual assault prevention.

According to the 2019 report, the DOD saw a three percent increase in sexual assault reports from the 2018 figure. Hopefully, this increase in reporting is a positive sign suggesting that more active military members feel supported and comfortable with coming forward after experiencing sexual assault or harassment.

Of the 54 cases we studied, approximately 11 percent involved some sort of inconsistency between Army conclusions and the opinions of those who knew the deceased...

VANGUARD ANALYSIS: Suspicious Deaths of Women in the U.S. Military - Davis Vanguard

By Mella Bettag, Jose Medina, Lauren Smith

davisvanguard.org

That last sentence … the Military seems to rule many deaths as suicide, when there is supposedly evidence to the contrary.

Sort if off topic, but not - did anyone see the 48 Hours program on Colonel Michael Stahlman? If you haven’t try and find it online. Dovetails what we are discussing here.

 

[Oiseaux]

Wow. Thanks for the good info, @sds71! That's really sad to see all of those names on that list, and to know there are exponentially more who have suffered from assaults but not died, and maybe even not reported them out of fear.

This is entirely anecdotal and JMO - but thinking of AWOL situations we've seen here in recent memory, it seems like when a man goes missing from the military, the military seems to approach it (publicly at least) as a mental health or desertion situation. But when a woman goes missing, public messaging from the military generally seems quieter. Does that seem to be the case, or is my mind just grabbing onto the recent case in Camp Pendleton, where the recruit kept being spotted around town in an apparent mental health situation?

 

[Leilei]

Other than just his name, have we learned anything else?

There is a lot out there, including the condition of her body when it was received in TX.
It's shameful.

Body of fallen sailor returned home in terrible condition, mother says

Angelina Petra Resendiz was found dead by NCIS on June 9 in Norfolk, Virginia, after going missing nearly two weeks earlier from Naval Station Norfolk.

www.navytimes.com

 

[Knox]

There is a lot out there, including the condition of her body when it was received in TX.
It's shameful.

Body of fallen sailor returned home in terrible condition, mother says

Angelina Petra Resendiz was found dead by NCIS on June 9 in Norfolk, Virginia, after going missing nearly two weeks earlier from Naval Station Norfolk.

www.navytimes.com

That is terribly shameful, but I also blame the funeral home. Why didn’t they check her condition before allowing Esmeralda to see her?