The businesswoman, singer and influencer Paris Hilton He testified this Wednesday before a United States Congressional committee about the “inhumane treatment” he suffered at a boarding school during his adolescence. and called for modernizing child welfare programs to prevent other young people from having the same experience.
“I am here to be the voice for those who cannot speak,” said the socialite after detailing some of the assumptions abuse he suffered in the first of the four behavior correction residences where he was when he was young.I was forced to take medication and sexually abused. “They grabbed me violently and dragged me through the corridors, stripped me naked and locked me in solitary confinement,” he explained.
Hilton, who attended Provo Canyon High School as a teenager, had already mentioned that episode from her past in her memoirs. Paris: The Memoir and in various media interviews. This Wednesday in Washington he said that Her parents were “completely deceived and manipulated by this profit-driven industry” about the “inhumane treatment” she was being subjected to.“So, can you imagine the treatment that the State can provide when it does not have people regularly inspecting them?” he added.
Children’s rights
Hilton, who in recent years has become a defender of children’s rightspresented the case of a 16-year-old girl living in a public foster home who was murdered for having “innocently thrown a sandwich in the cafeteria.” According to the influencerthe young woman was “violently held for ten minutes” by eight members of staff: “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. He also highlighted the importance of financial support for families so that they do not have to take their children to these centers. and 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, which is significantly more than it would cost to care for them in their own communities. “What is more important, protecting business 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 required more government oversight of these types of institutions.
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