{"id":11959,"date":"2023-11-22T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/paris-hilton-praises-gop-lawmakers-for-sponsoring-bipartisan-stop-institutional-child-abuse-act\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:52:11","slug":"paris-hilton-praises-gop-lawmakers-for-sponsoring-bipartisan-stop-institutional-child-abuse-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/paris-hilton-praises-gop-lawmakers-for-sponsoring-bipartisan-stop-institutional-child-abuse-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Hilton praises GOP lawmakers for sponsoring bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">American media personality and businesswoman Paris Hilton gave separate shoutouts online to the Republican and Democratic senators who are supporting the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u2018To the 10 republican senators co-sponsoring the #StopInstitutionalChildAbuseAct, thank you,\u2019 Hilton posted Monday on X. \u2018I am beyond grateful for you this holiday season.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hilton tagged Republican Sens. John Cornyn, Shelley Capito, Katie Britt, Thom Tillis, Tommy Tuberville, Susan Collins, Markwayne Mullin, Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall and Pete Ricketts in her post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The bicameral bill, authored by Cornyn, Tuberville, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,\u00a0Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Earl Carter, R-Ga., was introduced April 27. It aims to provide stronger oversight for residential youth treatment programs to identify and prevent child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, Hilton thanked the seven Democrats for co-sponsoring the bill, which is now in committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hilton, an advocate of the bill since its inception, alleged in a New York Times video op-ed series last year that she was a victim of sexual abuse as a teenager in the \u201990s, when she attended a boarding school in Utah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said she was the victim of a \u2018parent-approved kidnapping\u2019 when she was a misbehaving 16-year-old, with two men dragging her out of her home and into a congregate-care facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Very late at night, this would be around like three or four in the morning, they would take myself and other girls into this room and they would perform medical exams,\u2019 Hilton said in the interview. \u2018It wasn\u2019t even with a doctor, it was a couple of different staff members, where they would have us lay on the table and put their fingers inside of us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hilton later said she realized as an adult it was sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fox News earlier this year, Hilton said she was \u2018doing everything I can in my power to fight for these children because these are children who come from families that can\u2019t help and support them, and children from the juvenile justice system, foster care system.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And they have no voice,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Madeline Coggins contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American media personality and businesswoman Paris Hilton gave separate shoutouts online to the Republican and Democratic senators who are supporting the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act. \u2018To the 10 republican senators co-sponsoring the #StopInstitutionalChildAbuseAct, thank you,\u2019 Hilton posted Monday on X. \u2018I am beyond grateful for you this holiday season.\u2019 Hilton tagged Republican Sens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}