{"id":102,"date":"2026-09-12T23:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2026-09-12T23:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:19:20","slug":"paris-hilton-testifies-she-was-force-fed-medications-and-sexually-abused-while-institutionalized-as-a-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/paris-hilton-testifies-she-was-force-fed-medications-and-sexually-abused-while-institutionalized-as-a-teen\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Hilton testifies she was \u2018force-fed medications and sexually abused\u2019 while institutionalized as a teen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Was Force-fed Medicines, Dragged, Stripped, Sexually Abused: Paris Hilton\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sUJ2MsAPWto?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paris Hilton, the American socialite and media figure, has told a congressional panel looking into strengthening child welfare protections that she was \u201cforce-fed medications and sexually abused by staff\u201d while she was institutionalized as a teenager.Hilton, an outspoken advocate for better protections for children in youth facilities, told the House committee on ways and means on Wednesday that she had been \u201cviolently restrained and dragged down hallways, stripped naked and thrown into solitary confinement\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 43-year-old has previously described how she was subjected to \u201ca parent-approved kidnapping\u201d at four different youth facilities as her parents searched for solutions to her rebellious behavior and \u201cfell for the misleading marketing of the troubled teen industry\u201d.She has characterized the \u201ctough love\u201d teen course-correction business as a $50bn industry that includes therapeutic boarding schools, military-style boot camps, juvenile justice facilities and behavior-modification programs.On Wednesday, the reality TV star said she found her institutional experience \u201cisolating and traumatic\u201d and that she had been prevented from alerting her parents to what was happening because phone calls were monitored.\u201cIt\u2019s really difficult to tell anyone in the outside world. A lot of these kids are not believed because these places tell the parents they\u2019re being lied to and manipulated because they want to go home,\u201d Hilton told the panel.Hilton has also called on lawmakers to pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse act, designed to strengthen oversight of residential youth programs; supports the re-authorization of Title IV-B of the Social Security Act; and is an advocate for a \u201cBill of Rights\u201d for children in youth facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/jun\/26\/paris-hilton-testimony-congress-abuse-teen-facility\">TheGuardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Hilton, the American socialite and media figure, has told a congressional panel looking into strengthening child welfare protections that she was \u201cforce-fed medications and sexually abused by staff\u201d while she was institutionalized as a teenager.Hilton, an outspoken advocate for better protections for children in youth facilities, told the House committee on ways and means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-m","tag-igotproof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steppingstones-events.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}