Elizabeth Phillips
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My husband did not.
So you have summer camps, and then you have programs like that that are a little bit different than a traditional summer camp.
And then you have the troubled teen industry programs.
And that's a residential program for a teen that may be a very conservative parent, catches their kid.
smoking marijuana, and they freak out and they're like, you're a troubled teen, you have to go to this program.
They get kidnapped in the middle of the night, show up at this troubled teen program, behavioral program.
This is Paris Hilton's story.
I don't know if you've heard about any of this.
She got the Stop Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act passed by Congress because of her experience.
Paris Hilton?
Paris Hilton.
And then there's a nonprofit called Unsilenced, and they have a database of troubled teen programs that have allegations against them, so... Did you just say Paris Hilton got something passed about... What?
Paris Hilton.
Stop Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act.
And she and other survivors of the troubled teen industry rallied together to get Congress to approve this act.
She was abused at a troubled teen program in Utah.
Yeah.
Yeah, she's really impressive, really smart.
But then all of these other survivors have also coalesced around this, and Paris was willing to put her name on it, and they got it passed.
So you have the troubled teen programs.