American media personality and businesswoman Paris Hilton separately greeted Republican and Democratic senators who support the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act online.
“To the 10 Republican senators who are co-sponsoring the #StopInstitutionalChildAbuse Act, thank you,” Hilton posted Monday on X. “I am beyond grateful for you this holiday season.”
Hilton tagged Republican Senators John Cornyn, Shelley Capito, Katie Britt, Thom Tillis, Tommy Tuberville, Susan Collins, Markwayne Mullin, Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall and Pete Ricketts in her post.
The bicameral bill, authored by Cornyn, Tuberville, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Earl Carter, R-Ga., was introduced April 27.
Its goal is to provide stronger oversight of residential youth treatment programs to identify and prevent child abuse.
In another post, Hilton thanked the seven Democrats for co-sponsoring the bill, which is now in committee.
Hilton, a supporter of the bill since its inception, alleged in a series of New York Times video op-eds last year that she was a victim of sexual abuse as a teenager in the 1990s, while attending boarding school in Utah.
She said she was the victim of a “parent-approved kidnapping” when she was 16 and acting out, and two men dragged her out of her home and took her to a congregate care facility.
“Very late at night, around three or four in the morning, they would take me and other girls to this room and do medical tests on us,” Hilton said in the interview. “It wasn’t even with a doctor, but with a couple of different members of staff, who made us lie on the table and put their fingers inside us.”
Hilton thanked senators who support the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act. Twitter / @ParisHilton
Hilton later said she realized as an adult that it was sexual abuse.
In an interview with Fox News earlier this year, Hilton said she was “doing everything in my power to fight for these kids because they are kids who come from families that can’t help them or support them, and kids from the justice system.” youth”. system, foster care system.”
“And they have no voice,” he said.
Fox News’ Madeline Coggins contributed to this report.
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