“I remember crying while they held me down,” she says. The celebrity is in Washington with other former residents advocating for more checks on youth programs.
Hilton wrote that those invasive exams continued during her stay, with staffers pulling her from her bed in the middle of the night and taking her to an “exam room.” The celebrity said in the Wednesday op-ed that she didn’t understand as a teenager what was happening. But, as an adult, she recognizes that these unnecessary examinations were sexual assault.
The federal legislation, which was publicly announced last fall, has yet to be introduced in Congress. It was expected to be released this week, but, a nonprofit of former teen treatment residents who say they were abused, said in a social media post that it was held as it works to get bipartisan support for the legislation.