Paris Hilton Cries Sexual Abuse While Staying At A Utah Boarding School
Socialite Paris Hilton recently spoke up about the sexual abuse she was forced to endure, undergoing several cervical exams while staying at a boarding school in Utah.
The incident happened in the 1990s, and the entertainer was straightforward in her recollection that it happened in the wee hours of the morning at Provo Canyon School.
The school was meant to house troubled teens. Paris, now 41 years old, shared that what happened to her in the school stole her childhood. She was 17 years old when she stayed at the boarding house for eleven months.
The hotel heiress narrated that early morning, at around 3 or 4, the staff took her and the other girls to a room where they subjected them to medical exams. But unlike the ethical medical exams, they had to go through an exam without a doctor present but with several staff members of the boarding school.
Paris and the other teen boarders would be asked to lie on the table, and then the staff would put their fingers on them. Precisely what were they doing, and for what purpose? Paris and the other girls didn’t know, but she was sure that none of them were doctors.
Paris has attempted to block the scary experience from her memories. Still, the past is now haunting Paris and, with it, a full-blown recollection of what happened—something that she can’t stop thinking about now. As an adult who is now more aware of things, Paris can confirm that what happened to her then was definitely sexual abuse.
Paris also used her Twitter platform to provide further details of what happened. Her status message was “Sleep-deprived & heavily medicated; I didn’t understand what was happening.”
She further detailed that she was forced to stay still on a table, spread her legs and then let these people do the so-called cervical exams. They held her down as she cried and said “No” to them. They’d warned her to be quiet; else they would have to send her to Obs.
Paris believes that by opening up to these frightening memories, she can heal and, at the same time, help stop the abuse. She also advocates for all the other teens subjected to the same or similar sexual abuse and violation she experienced.
Her goal is to prevent other children from going through something similar to her traumatic experience and to prevent their childhood from being stolen.
Universal Health Services purchased Provo Canton School in 2000, one year after the sexual abuse. Paris directed her tweet to the new owners for the facility operation to be shut down. Paris tweeted that profit should not be the priority and demanded the school cease operation by April 1, 2023.
Staying in the treatment facility is not cheap, with a year’s cost racking up bills of up to $300,000. Paris’ allegations were not the first ones the school faced because there were previous complaints of young people in the institution being beaten and drugged.
Universal Health Services claimed that they had adopted a holistic approach for the teens seeking medical attention and guidance from the facility, but the August 2021 lawsuit the organization faced tells a different story.
The family of then-13-year-old Aaron Ross sued them. The teen claimed that he had been forced to perform oral sex on several staff members under the threat of being starved and locked away alone for weeks.
The lawsuit also mentioned that the facility typically administered punishments like chemical sedation, physical and verbal abuse, sleep and food deprivation, vigorous labor, physical restraint, and humiliation.
