Paris Hilton: I was held down and sexually abused at Utah

[justfortheplot]

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[anterrabre]

These "rehabilitation schools" have little to no oversight and something seriously needs to be done. It's awful how victims are often discredited because "well, you were a bad kid to get sent there in the first place" but that has nothing to do with abuse!

[skyler_white_yo]

“bad kids” are less likely to be believed if/when they make a disclosure.

[dejatrue]

And predators know that. Many of them intentionally target the children and people they view as easiest to discredit.

[micce2233]

If they did this to Paris Hilton (I’m not sure about the timeline, but I guess this was before her popculture relevancy - but she was still a Hilton) imagine what other girls with less powerful families have had done to them

[syphilisdiller]

And there's so many of these places!

[anterrabre]

It's awful in many ways because parents sign their kids up because they honestly need help and it's a huge betrayal of trust not only to the child but also to the parent who entrusted them with their child's care.

[dropdeadpirate]

I can't believe in this day and age we don't have strict as hell laws about this kind of thing. You can just sign away your kids temporarily and they can do whatever they want to them. And people willingly do it. It's disgusting.

[my_moloko]

I don't understand how these places are allowed to operate at all. It's horrific.

[pixiegerms]

I've mentioned it on ontd before, but I was at one of these schools for a year when I was 13, and the staff themselves would always say that to us when we complained or challenged something they said. They'd be like "you're the one who was sent here" or "I'm not the one who got sent to an emotional growth boarding school" as like a point to discredit anything negative we said about the place. Basically like, our complaints can't be valid because we're fucked up kids.

[anterrabre]

OMG that's so fucking horrible and it is not the way. :( I don't care how out of control a teen is, why would you approach them in a way that's anything but nurturing? You can let someone know you're not here for nonsense but do it in a way that you're not being shitty.

I'm so sorry you went through that, and I hope you're in a better place now.

[jf053456976]

Yup. I was in one too. And they told parents to disregard any complaints of mistreatment as manipulations to try to get pulled.