The businesswoman and singer Paris Hilton testified this Wednesday before a United States Congressional committee about the “inhuman treatment” he 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’m here to be the voice of those who cannot speak“said the socialite after detailing some of the abuse she suffered in the first of the four behavioral correction homes where she was young. “They forced me to take medication and They sexually abused me. They grabbed me violently and dragged me through the hallways, stripped me naked and locked me up. in solitary confinement,” he explained.
Hilton, who was a boarder at the school Provo Canyon In his adolescence, he had already mentioned that episode of 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 industry for profit” about the “inhumane treatment” of which she was being a victim.
Hilton, who has been involved in the fight for children’s rights in recent years, also discussed the case of a 16-year-old girl living in a public foster home who was murdered for having “innocently thrown away a sandwich in the cafeteria.”
According to influencerthe young woman was “violently restrained 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.” 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, 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?” she 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 would require more government oversight of such institutions.
