{"id":104167,"date":"2020-08-24T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104167"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:20:39","slug":"update-on-missing-fort-hood-sergeant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104167","title":{"rendered":"Update on missing Fort Hood sergeant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104020\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Elder Fernandes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sgt Elder Fernandes, who&#8217;s been missing now for more than five days, was recently transferred to a different unit as a result being a victim in an alleged sexual assault.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We can confirm there is an open investigation of abusive sexual contact involving Sgt. Fernandes,&#8221; Lt. Col. Chris Brautigam, a 1st Cavalry Division spokesman, said in a statement to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The unit sexual assault response coordinator has been working closely with Sgt. Fernandes, ensuring he was aware of all his reporting, care, and victim advocacy options,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Brautigam said Fernandes was transferred &#8220;to ensure he received the proper care and ensure there were no opportunities for reprisals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Army officials\u00a0asked for the public\u2019s help\u00a0Friday in their search for Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Killeen, Texas, who\u00a0are involved in the search,\u00a0said he was reported missing Wednesday. Family members told police he was last seen or heard from Monday afternoon when his staff sergeant dropped him off at his home in Killeen.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier, whose family is originally from Cape Verde in West Africa, had been in the hospital for four or five days prior to his disappearance, said his mother, Ailiana Fernandes. She said it was unclear why he was in the hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/missing-fort-hood-soldier-victim-220644612.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt Elder Fernandes, who&#8217;s been missing now for more than five days, was recently transferred to &hellip; <a title=\"Update on missing Fort Hood sergeant\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104167\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on missing Fort Hood sergeant<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104168,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104167\/revisions\/104168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}