Media personality and fashion icon Paris Hilton is taking her allegations of institutional child abuse to the California State Capitol.
Hilton alleges that she was a victim of sexual abuse as a teenager at a boarding school in Utah in the 1990s, and is currently involved in California Republican Rep. Shannon Grove’s bill calling for greater transparency in child treatment. Accountability (ACT). For parents, she inquires about the whereabouts of children in troubled youth programs. If a serious injury or death occurs, it will be required to be published on the state’s social services website.
The bill would require facilities licensed by the California Department of Social Services to publicly disclose information about the use of restraints and solitary-style rooms.
“These facilities systematically silence youth, and I believe that those who evaluate these facilities and the families who place youth in these facilities often do not have up-to-date and accurate information about abusive behavior. “We are committed to putting in place more transparent mechanisms to provide access to information and the traumatic acts that occur,” Hilton told FOX News Digital on Friday. “Transparency not only holds institutions accountable for their actions, but it also helps survivors like me feel validated and heard.”
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Paris Hilton speaks at a press conference on a bill that would create a Bill of Rights for children in congregate care facilities outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. ((Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images))
Mr Hilton added: ‘I also hope to encourage a more compassionate understanding of how we treat young people with mental health and behavioral needs, because knowing them… Because I know from first-hand experience that sending people far away from their home and loved ones is not a sustainable answer.”
After the state passed a bill several years ago decertifying non-California facilities and ordering all youth to return by January 2023, the state has already begun to move away from children, many of them in foster care. Measures are being taken to protect children in facilities from abuse in out-of-state facilities. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has allocated $8 million to immediately return children in out-of-state facilities and strengthen behavioral treatment programs.
Grove said he was “grateful” Hilton supported his bill, SB1043, which, if signed into law, would provide greater transparency to address the decades-old problem of child abuse. He said that it would help eliminate the problem.
“In the out-of-state program, we were sometimes isolated in an empty room for 20 hours,” Grove told FOX News Digital on Friday. “We want to make sure these kids don’t harm themselves or others, and those specific locations should be used for that, but we want to make sure these kids don’t harm themselves or others. We want to make sure that no one is traumatized or hurt.”
Paris Hilton details trauma and abuse at ‘troubled teen’ facility
Paris Hilton was on the track Saturday night before some races. (Bob Kubens)
Grove said many youth facilities are intended to be camp-like environments where children are in regiments, wake up early, eat breakfast, do chores and attend classes. But in fact, she said, many children, now adults, have come forward in recent years detailing alleged abuse that may take place at some of these facilities.
Many of these abuse cases were shown in the recent Netflix documentary series The Program: Swindlers, Cults, and Kidnappings, which depict troubled teens at the hands of the Academy in Ivy Ridge, New York. Documents abuse of young people.
Former students claim they were subjected to abuse ranging from kidnapping from their homes, strip searches, starvation, sleep deprivation, corporal punishment, and solitary confinement. On the other hand, they said they had no formal education.
Ms. Hilton claimed to have had a similar experience when she was younger.
Paris Hilton arrives at the White House for a meeting on child abuse laws
California State Senator Shannon Grove (right) (Kelly Sullivan)
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In a 2022 New York Times video op-ed series, Hilton said she was the victim of a “parent-sanctioned kidnapping” when two men dragged her from her home at the age of 16 for misbehaving. Told. Group care facility.
“It was late at night, maybe 3 or 4 a.m., and they took me and the other girls into this room and did a health check,” Hilton said in an interview. “A few staff members, not doctors, made us lie down on a table and put their fingers inside us.”
Last year, Hilton stood alongside U.S. lawmakers to co-sponsor the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act. bicameral billAuthored by Cornyn, Tuberville, Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Rep. Ro Khanna (California), and Rep. Earl Carter (R), it was introduced last April and introduced stronger legislation on housing. It is intended to provide monitoring. Youth treatment programs to identify and prevent child abuse.
Hilton and Grove plan to introduce the bill at a press conference in Sacramento on Monday.
