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US entrepreneur and socialite Paris Hilton recounts the abuse she suffered at congregate care facilities, also known as the "troubled teen industry," and urges passage of legislation that would create a bill of rights for children placed in those facilities. "For 20 years I couldn’t sleep at night as memories of physical violence, the feeling of loneliness, the loss of peers rushed through my mind when I shut my eyes. This was not just insomnia, it was trauma," Hilton says in a speech outside the US Capitol in Washington.
Entrepreneur and socialite Paris Hilton joins US House representatives outside Congress as they propose legislation aimed at protecting children placed in congregate-care facilities -- fully supervised, 24-hour behavioral treatment centers aimed at reforming "troubled teens" through "tough love" -- an industry that many consider abusive and that often operates for-profit. Hilton was sent to four congregate-care facilities as a teenager, at which she says she endured physical and psychological abuse by staff. IMAGES
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