Finally, more than a decade after she reported being molested, Brenna Saoirse had a small measure of justice that had eluded her following a botched Army investigation into her allegations.
Brenna Saoirse, who said she was molested by her father while he was in the military, tells her story and shares a message for other survivors of sexual abuse.Sitting a few rows in front of Saoirse, at the defendant’s table in a federal courtroom in Indianapolis, was Bennie William Schuck. The former U.S. Army special agent had pleaded guilty to molesting a 9-year-old girl and was now waiting to hear his sentence.
Thirteen years earlier, Schuck's Army supervisors were notified of his daughter's allegations. Child Protective Services got involved. The Army Criminal Investigation Division opened a misconduct investigation — only to close it without ever interviewing Saoirse. “You don’t just close it without talking to the victim or alleged victim. You should never do that. You don’t just quit,” he said. “If you have an allegation that one of your own is a child molester … you just can’t ignore it.”The incident, Saoirse said, happened in the early 2000s, when she was 5 or 6, and the family was living at Fort Lewis Army Base in Washington State.
“At the end of the day, how do you say that your dad, who’s a military criminal investigator, that he did this to his daughter?” Saoirse said. “I knew no one would believe me. And I was scared because my dad has always taken care of us financially.” Saoirse said she began cutting herself during her early teenage years, convinced she deserved to be in pain. She started on her upper arm near her shoulder. As she got older, it became more frequent. Then she started cutting her wrist, never deep enough to seriously hurt herself, but painful, nonetheless. It continued well into her adulthood.
Saoirse's sister also declined to be interviewed. She said her older brother had long been detached from her life, and her younger brother was too young to remember what happened.
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