“Mom, everyone wants me to sleep with them”: Parents of soldier Ana Fernanda Basaldua who was found dead at a Texas military base say their daughter was harassed by a superior

Answers, to try to understand their daughter’s death, await Baldo Basaldua and Alejandra Ruiz Zarco. The parent says she just spoke to Ana Fernanda on March 8, 2023 and noticed her sadly.

“She told me she wanted to see me, she wanted to hug me, and she wanted me to hug her a lot, like when she was little,” she told Telemundo News.

Ana Fernanda Basaldua Ruiz was a soldier, combat engineer, 20 years old. On Monday, March 13, she was found lifeless in the facilities of the Fort Hood military base, Texas, United States, where she had served for the past 15 months.

The young woman had informed her mother that she was suffering sexual harassment. The soldier’s corpse was “in a maintenance room” of the aforementioned base. Preliminary, the death was said to have been due to a case of suicide.

what happened to the soldier

Ana Fernanda’s father, Baldo Basaldua, said he last spoke to his daughter on Saturday, 11 of this month.

Basaldua, who lives in California, said the young woman did not answer messages on Sunday and tried to contact her again on Monday.

“I sent him messages and they stopped reaching him, the delivered one stopped appearing and I went looking for his location (satellite) and it looked like he was in a park in the base and that was it, I just put sent him a message that whoever would die would frighten me, because I knew nothing about her,” he recalled.

That Monday morning, around 11am, some soldiers went to the restaurant where he works to inform him of the unfortunate news.

“I didn’t feel comfortable anymore” think of the father Baldo Basaldua’s daughter, “born in Mexico and naturalized in the United States,” served three years in the military. His contract, the television network explained, ran until August.

However, the father recalled telling him recently that “she wasn’t comfortable anymore, that her whole life was wrong, that she wanted to die.”

“Mom, everyone wants me to sleep with them”

On Women’s Day, March 8, Ana Bárbara spoke to her mother, who lives in Michoacán, Mexico.

Alejandra Ruiz Zarco found herself worried. “He told me there would come a time when we would be together and he would tell me everything.”

The woman revealed that, according to her daughter, a superior was harassing her.

He said to me, ‘Mom, everyone wants me to sleep with them, but they really are assholes.

“My daughter loved to read, she was a smiling, daring, courageous and free girl. Lovingly with her mother,” she described.

Vanessa Guillén: the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the soldier that has American Hispanics in suspense.

A 2020 assassination at the same military base

The death of Ana Fernanda reminded of what happened to Vanessa Guillén, 20 years old.

Guillén was also a soldier and his body was found at the same military base at Fort Hood.

“She was beaten to death by a colleague who removed and dismembered her body before burying her in a remote location.

Aaron Robinson, 20, committed suicide as police prepared to question him after Guillén’s human remains turned up, nearly two months after his disappearance,” reported El Universal.

A woman, Cecily Aguilar, Robinson’s girlfriend, Telemundo recalled, was arrested on charges of aiding in the disposal of Guillén’s body.

military statement

Following the death of soldier Basaldua Ruiz, the military base sent a statement to the aforementioned television channel:

“(…) The Army Criminal Investigation Division and chain of command are actively investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding his death.

The chain of command is in contact with his family to keep them informed and offer them any information that can be disseminated. In addition, she provides support and resources to the family and the Troopers who served with her.