“When I was 16 years old, I was awakened one night by two men with handcuffs,” she writes. “They asked if I wanted to go ‘the easy way or the hard way’ before carrying me from my home as I screamed for help. I had no idea why or where I was being taken … I soon learned I was being sent to hell.”
“I was choked, slapped across the face, spied on [by male staff] while showering, and deprived of sleep,” she explains. “I was called vulgar names and forced to take medication without a diagnosis. At one, I was locked in solitary confinement in a room where the walls were covered in scratch marks and blood stains.”
The secret revelations Paris Hilton has brought to light only show us how broken this cruel system has been and continues to be, with kids often coming out of these centers more traumatized than before they entered them.