American media personality and businesswoman Paris Hilton gave separate shout-outs online to Republican and Democratic senators supporting the bipartisan End Institutional Child Abuse Act.
“To the 10 republican senators who co-sponsored the #StopInstitutionalChildAbuseAct, thank you,” Hilton posted Monday on X. “I am so 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 his broadcast.
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 on April 27. i
t aims to provide stronger oversight for residential youth treatment programs to identify and prevent child abuse.
In another note, Hilton thanked the seven Democrats for co-sponsoring the bill, which is now in committee.
Hilton, a supporter of the bill since its inception, claimed in a series of New York Times video op-eds last year that she was sexually abused as a teenager in the 90s, when she attended a boarding school in Utah.
She said she was the victim of a “parental-sanctioned kidnapping” when she was a misbehaving 16-year-old, with two men dragging her out of her home and into a congregate care facility.
“Late at night, about three or four o’clock in the morning, they would bring myself and another girl into this room and they would do a medical examination,” Hilton said in the interview. “It wasn’t with the doctor, it was some different staff, where they would have us lie on the table and put their fingers inside us.”
Hilton gives a shout out to senators who support the Bipartisan End Child Abuse Institutions Act.Twitter / @ParisHilton
Hilton later said she realized as an adult it was sexual abuse.
In an interview with Fox News earlier this year, Hilton said she “does everything I can to fight for these kids because they’re kids who come from families that can’t help and support them, and kids from juvenile justice . system, the foster care system.”
“And they don’t have a voice,” he said.
Madeline Coggins of Fox News contributed to this report.
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