Paris Hilton is celebrating the closing of a 55-year-old Utah school: Her long battle with residential schools and why | World News
A 55-year-old school in Utah was recently ordered to close, including Paris Hilton Celebrating online. On Monday, local news announced that the Utah Department of Health and Human Services had revoked the license of Provo Canyon School’s Springville campus.The school was cited for a number of breaches, including failing to maintain health and safety, reporting critical incidents and using offensive physical contact. The school’s license was already conditional due to previous citations, and it now has until August 6 to cease all operations. During a media briefing on Tuesday, Shannon Thoman-Blake of the Utah Department of Health and Human Services said the school’s owner “will not be able to reapply for a new license for five years” and in the meantime, the department will monitor the facility as “these children are being transported to a safe place.”““We disagree with the state’s decision to revoke the license for Provo Canyon School’s Springville campus and are evaluating all available legal and administrative options, including appeals,” Provo Canyon School CEO Tim Marshall said in a statement, adding, “Our top priority remains providing safe, high-quality care and support for youth and their families.”After all this going on, one thing has been determined. American heiress and media personality Paris Hilton is celebrating the decision, which she has been fighting for for years. On Tuesday, she shared a post on X celebrating the news. She wrote that she had been waiting “for years” to make the announcement. “This surgery will no longer be allowed in a place that has harmed me and countless children before and after me,” she said. “My dream of having to protect future generations from the abuse I suffered has finally come true.”
past trauma
Hilton’s relationship with the school goes way back. In 1997, at the age of 17, she was forced to attend school for 11 months. Although she remained silent for years, in 2020 she began talking about the ordeals she faced at the institution in interviews and the documentary This Is Paris. She wrote in the Washington op-ed that after a parent-sanctioned kidnapping, she arrived at school and was woken by “two men in handcuffs,” who “asked her if she wanted to take the ‘easy way or the hard way.'” They allegedly carried her screaming from her home. She said her parents did this to help curb her “rebellious” behavior.“I had no idea why or where I was being taken against my will. I soon learned I was being sent to hell,” she wrote, adding that staff “monitored and censored” her communications with the outside world, ruling out seeking help. According to her op-ed, Hilton maintained she was kept in solitary confinement “in a room with walls covered in scratches and blood” and was regularly berated by staff who allegedly beat and choked minors in their care.In another instance, she said she was sexually assaulted by school staff as a teenager. In an interview with The New York Times, she alleged that male staff members took her and other female students to a room “late at night” and digitally penetrated them under the guise of performing cervical checks. “It’s not even a doctor,” Hilton told The Times. “There were a few different staff members and they would put us on the table and put their fingers in it. I don’t even know what they were doing but it was definitely not doctors and it was really scary. “In an “I was forced to lie down on a padded table, spread my legs and submit…I cried as they pushed me down,” she wrote.She also said she suffered similar assaults at three other facilities when she was younger, writing that she was medicated without diagnosis and “suffocated, slapped, spied on in the shower, and deprived of sleep.” Hilton’s allegations inspired other former residents to file similar complaints.
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