“They grabbed me violently and dragged me through the hallways, they stripped me naked and locked me in solitary confinement,” he reported about his past in behavioral correction centers.
Paris Hilton walking through the US Capitol EFE
Paris Hilton testified this Wednesday before a committee of the US Congress on “inhumane treatment” who suffered in a boarding school during his adolescence and called for modernizing child welfare programs to prevent other young people from living that same experience.
“I am here to be the voice of those who cannot speak,” he said after detailing some of the alleged abuses he suffered in the first of the four behavior correction homes where he was young.
“They forced me to take medication and They sexually abused me. “They grabbed me violently and dragged me through the hallways, they stripped me naked and locked me in solitary confinement,” explained the businesswoman and singer.
Hilton, who was a boarder at the school Provo Canyon In his adolescence, he had already mentioned that episode from his past in his memoirs. “Paris: The Memoir” and in various media interviews.
This Wednesday in Washington he noted that his parents were “completely deceived and manipulated by this for-profit industry” about the “inhumane treatment” of which he was being subjected.
“So, can you imagine the treatment that the State can provide by not having people who are regularly inspecting them?” he added.
Hilton, who in recent years has become a defender of children’s rights, presented the case of a 16-year-old girl residing in a public shelter who was murdered for having “innocently thrown a sandwich in the cafeteria.” .
According to the influencer, the young woman was “violently detained for ten minutes” at the hands of eight staff members: “They killed her on the dining room floor in front of dozens of children… The State could have prevented this.”
The DJ, a mother of two young children, expressed support for the Ways and Means Committee’s bipartisan effort to reauthorize Title IV-B of the Social Security Act on child welfare, which expired in 2021.
Paris Hilton. Photo: Reuters.
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Request for decent conditions for boarding schools
He also highlighted the importance of financial support for families so that they do not have to take their children to these centers and He demanded decent conditions for those who have to reside in these spaces.
“It costs approximately $800 to $1,000 a day to place a youth in a foster care facility, that is significantly more than it would cost to care for them in their own communities. What is more important, protecting corporate profits or protecting the lives of young people?” he questioned.
In 2021, Hilton also spoke about her teenage experience before a state Senate committee at the Utah Capitol to lobby for the creation of a bill that called for more government supervision in these types of institutions.
