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Twenty-year-old Specialst Vanessa Guillén disappeared April 22, 2020.
Cecily Aguilar was sentenced Monday to 30 years in jail for her function within the 2020 demise of Military Spc. Vanessa Guillén. The sentence was the utmost attainable penalty confronted by the 25-year-old Aguilar.
On Nov. 29, 2022, Aguilar pleaded responsible to 1 depend of accent to homicide after the very fact and three counts of false assertion or illustration after serving to her now-deceased boyfriend, Spc. Aaron Robinson, conceal Guillén’s stays, in line with court docket paperwork. Aguilar additionally destroyed digital proof within the case and made false statements to federal investigators.
Robinson is suspected of killing Guillén in April 2020 in an arms room at Fort Hood, earlier this yr renamed Fort Cavazos. Federal and state authorities consider Robinson beat Guillén with a hammer earlier than recruiting Aguilar to assist him dismember and burn Guillén’s physique and bury it in three shallow holes close to the Leon River, roughly 20 miles from the bottom.
Robinson died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound when he was approached by Killeen police, U.S. Marshals and Military felony investigators July 1, 2020, leaving Aguilar as the only real individual charged in reference to the homicide.
Mayra Guillén — Vanessa’s older sister and founding father of the I Am Vanessa Guillén Basis — mentioned throughout a Monday press convention that Aguilar confronted the soldier’s household and requested for forgiveness, which “actually took [Guillén] abruptly.”
Guillén’s case drew nationwide consideration to sexual assault within the army. It additionally impressed the primary regulation in U.S. army historical past blocking rating commanders from deciding whether or not to prosecute service members accused of significant crimes similar to manslaughter, stalking and home violence. As an alternative, unbiased prosecutors now make that decision.
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