“I was just a girl and I felt raped every day,” the celebrity told the Utah Criminal Justice Commission. His testimony and that of other victims served to pass a bill seeking more government control in these centers.
Paris Hilton gave a poignant statement to the Utah Criminal Justice Commission about her days incarcerated at Provo Canyon School, a state boarding school, when she was just 16 years old.
On Monday, the 39-year-old celebrity spoke about the abuses she suffered at the hands of the caregivers themselves and the traumas this has generated in her life and which 22 years later are still present.
“I was just a girl and I felt raped every day,” she recounted as she added that talking about “something so personal” was and still is terrifying. Paris noted that children were regularly immobilized, beaten, thrown against walls, drowned and sexually abused.
She noted that more than two decades after that 11-month episode, she is unable to go to bed and sleep knowing that there are children experiencing the same thing for what she went through and that her nightmares are recurring.
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Paris testified before the Senate committee at the Capitol that the same staff of the reformatory beat her, forced her to take pills, watched her while she showered, and sent her to solitary confinement without clothes as punishment.
Paris Hilton poses during the American Music Awards 2020 which aired from the Microsoft Theater on November 22, 2020 in Los Angeles. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. / ABC / AFPAmerican Broadcasting Companies, Inc. / ABC / AFP
“Without a diagnosis, I was forced to consume medications that made me feel numb and exhausted. I did not breathe fresh air or see the sunlight for 11 months,” he said.
“Every time I used the bathroom or showered, I was monitored. At 16, when I was little, I felt her penetrating eyes looking at my body. I was just a girl and I felt raped every day,” she narrated. sentence: “I am proof that money does not protect against abuse.”
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The statements of Hilton and other victims served to pass a bill seeking more government oversight in these institutions terribly tainted by their abusive practices regarding the treatment of their users.
Paris called on the authorities and President Joe Biden to have tighter control of these institutions where, he noted, these abuses continue to occur.
“This bill will definitely help a lot of kids, but obviously there is more work to be done and I will not stop until the change happens,” he ruled.