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Date: January 18, 2024 05:19PM
I've edited the following from a March 2023 SLTrib article:
Since 2020 Paris has pushed for reform to oversight teen treatment programs in Utah and other states.
Hilton wrote extensively about her time in wilderness programs and teen treatment centers — including at Provo Canyon School — and how the alleged abuse affected her into adulthood.
The current owners of Provo Canyon School, repeatedl declined to respond to Hilton's story saying it did not own the facility during the time she said she was abused.
...arriving at Provo Canyon School in 1997 she was forced to submit to a pelvic exam before being handed a pair of faded sweats labeled with the number “127.” Hilton said staff referred her by this number...
...While at Provo Canyon School, Hilton said she endured late-night gynecological exams for no clear medical reason.
“They called it a ‘medical exam,’” Hilton wrote. “And because I wasn’t ready to call it ‘digital rape,’ I called it a medical exam, too.”
In her book, Hilton recalled being haunted by memories of being taken to an infirmary several times in the middle of the night for a vaginal exam that had no clear medical purpose.
If the girls resisted the examination, Hilton said, they were threatened with the injection of a sedative. These injections were used with such regularity during that time that residents and staff nicknamed it “booty juice,” she said.
“There was always a tray with syringes,”
Hilton said her mother told acquaintances that she had gone to school in London during that time.
As an adult, Hilton googled “Provo Canyon School” and said she was surprised to learn it was still open.
She has returned to Utah twice for advocacy work — once in 2020 to hold a rally outside Provo Canyon School, and again the following year to testify before a state Senate committee urging members to pass regulatory reform of Utah’s booming troubled-teen industry.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/03/14/heres-what-paris-hilton-says-about/