She’s all grown up now! The “Stop Institutional Child Abuse Bill” advocated by entrepreneur Paris Hilton has passed and will be signed by Joe Biden. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act aims to prevent institutional child abuse, neglect, and death1. It would provide increased oversight and data transparency for institutional youth programs by implementing urgent recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The bill would establish an interagency Federal Work Group on Youth Residential Programs to support and implement best practices regarding the health and safety, care, treatment, and appropriate placement of youth in youth residential programs. That’s hot!

If you recognize “That’s hot!” (trademarked by Hilton in 2004) as Paris Hilton’s catch phrase, congratulations, you watched her reality show with Nicole Ritchie. The show aired from 2003 to 2007, although the first season was the best. She has gone on to be a model, actress, entrepreneur, wife and mother. Before that, Hilton was signed over to several residential schools by her parents. The trauma she endured at the schools inspired the “Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act and with this Paris hopes to prevent other children from repeating her experience at these schools. Miss Hilton first began lobbying Congress on this subject in 2021.

She detailed her experiences for Sky News in 2023:

“It was like something out of a horror film,” she says. “It’s like they enjoyed abusing children.”

In the early 2000s, Hilton was one of the most photographed women in the world, the leader of a party set that included Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan.

But behind the celebrity, there was a darker reality.

As a 16-year-old she was sent to a series of residential facilities for so-called troubled teens, children with all manner of issues, from bad behaviour to addiction problems and mental illness.

“I wasn’t a bad kid,” she says.

“I was just a normal 16-year-old girl. My parents were very strict. They didn’t want me going out and I rebelled and started sneaking out and getting bad grades.

“My parents spoke to a therapist who recommended these schools. I later found out that this therapist and many others receive commissions sending children to these places.”

Like many children who attend these schools, Hilton’s parents paid for secure transportation, in effect an authorised kidnapping, where strangers take teenagers from their beds in the middle of the night and bundle them into the back of waiting vans.

“At 4.30 in the morning, two large men came into my room and just shook me out of bed and said, ‘Do you want to go the easy way or the hard way?’.

“They were holding up handcuffs and I had no idea what was happening, I thought I was being kidnapped, I had no idea who these people were.

“It just blows my mind that there are people like this that exist in the world that could treat children like this and get away with it for so long.

“I still have severe nightmares about it.”

There’s more:

In her newly released autobiography, Paris: The Memoir, she alleges she was woken in the middle of the night by male staff – not doctors – and led to a private room, where they forced her to submit to cervical exams.

“To be treated like a criminal when you’re just a kid,” she says, “and the strip searches constantly”.

“As an adult now, I see that as sexual abuse. Male and female staff watching a young girl changing or naked or taking a shower, it was just dehumanising on all levels.”

With all of the “transing” now, this almost seems like innocence on the part of her parents. I cannot imagine the Hell I would unleash on that facility. I cannot imagine the fears and anxieties of a “foster care” child without loving, involved parents or advocates and a famous last name. Hilton Hotels? Paris Hilton did what she could once she was grown and healed–she advocated. This past June, she testified on the Hill:

US Capitol: Paris Hilton advocating for children victims of foster care.

“Today residential facilities are warehousing 50,000+ foster youths and an unknown number of adopted youths in lockdown facilities. Innocent children who have not committed crimes”pic.twitter.com/41sbhuOQCG

— Liberty Times & Politics (@dmills3710) June 27, 2024

S.1351 The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act was introduced into the Senate in April. Paris Hilton is now 43 and the Mother of two. Her Bill is set to be signed by the President. It will bring transparency to the a murky world:

Now, someone needs to put a pen in Joe Biden’s hand.

Today is a day I will never forget. After years of sharing my story and advocating on Capitol Hill, the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act has officially passed the U.S Congress. This moment is proof that our voices matter, that speaking out can spark change, and that no child… pic.twitter.com/NUYLMJyDpC

— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) December 18, 2024

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