“I was just a girl and I felt raped every day,” the famous told the Utah Criminal Justice Commission. Their testimony and that of other victims served to pass a bill that envisages greater government control in these centers.
Paris Hilton gave a poignant statement to the Utah Criminal Justice Commission about her days in custody at Provo Canyon School, a boarding school, when she was only 16 years old.
On Monday, the 39-year-old famous woman spoke about the abuse she suffered at the hands of the caregivers themselves and the trauma it caused in her life, which is still present 22 years later.
“I was just a girl and felt violated every day,” she said, adding that talking about “something so personal” was and still is terrifying. Paris noted that children were regularly pinned, beaten, thrown against walls, strangled and sexually assaulted.
She pointed out that for more than two decades after that 11-month episode, she can’t go to bed to sleep, knowing that there are children who experience the same thing from what she’s been through and that her nightmares keep returning.
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Paris testified before the Senate Committee on Capitol Hill that the same Reformed staff beat her, forced her to swallow pills, watched her shower, and sent her without clothes to solitary as punishment.
Paris Hilton poses at the 2020 American Music Awards that aired from the Microsoft Theater on November 22, 2020 in Los Angeles. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. / ABC / AFP American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. / ABC / AFP
“Without a diagnosis, I was forced to take medication that left me feeling numb and exhausted. I haven’t breathed fresh air or seen sunlight for 11 months, ”he said.
“Every time he used the bathroom or showered, he checked himself. When I was 16, as a child I could feel his piercing eyes looking at my body. I was just a girl and felt raped every day, ”she said and convicted,“ 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 that envisages greater government surveillance in these institutions that are terribly tainted by their abusive practices in relation to the treatment of their users.
Paris called on the authorities and President Joe Biden to take greater control of these institutions where, he said, these abuses continue to occur.
“This bill will certainly help a lot of kids, but clearly there is more work to be done and I’m not going to stop until the change happens,” he said.