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Issue 180 – January 2025
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Information in this issue includes: The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2025, Ritual Abuse, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists, Alison Miller, Karnac Books, psychotherapy, ritualabuse.us, The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2025, Ritual Abuse, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists, Alison Miller, Karnac Books, psychotherapy, ritualabuse.us, bill giving ritualistic abusers more time in prison, Utah bill to heighten punishment for child torture, CIA Behavior Control Experiments, MKULTRA Program, Sidney Gottlieb’s CIA Personnel File, Mind Control, Drug Experiments , BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, experiments using drugs hypnosis isolation sensory deprivation, George White, Velma “Val” Orlikow victim of CIA-sponsored projects, Dr. Ewen Cameron Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, John Marks, Freedom of Information Act requests, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, National Security Archive, CIA’s 1963 KUBARK interrogation manual, LSD, CIA psychologist John Gittinger, MKULTRA subprojects, Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, run by Dr. Charles Geschickter, a professor of pathology at Georgetown University, Human Ecology Society, Nazi doctors, torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, MKNAOMI, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH, Frank Olson, Congressional hearings and testimony, CIA’s reading room, daycare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith, Pelicot trial, aggravated rape, Paris Hilton-backed child abuse bill, oversight of the ‘troubled teen’ industry, Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, Las Cruces daycare co-owner federal child abuse charges
Lawmakers working to introduce bill giving ritualistic abusers more time in prison by Paul Nelson, KUTVWed, November 20th 2024 Lawmakers are getting closer to introducing a bill that could give convicted abusers — especially ritualistic abusers — more time in prison.
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Lawmakers are getting closer to introducing a bill that could give convicted abusers — especially ritualistic abusers — more time in prison. Child abuse prevention advocates call ritualistic child abuse an “evil practice,” and one that happens in Utah far more often than people may think. On Capitol Hill Wednesday, lawmakers talked about a bill that could give convicted abusers more time in prison….
When people hear the word “ritual,” many people think of religious ceremonies, but investigators say those aren’t the only kinds and that ritualistic abuse may involve many different things. One woman, Cara Baldree, said she endured this kind of abuse when she was young. She can remember being groomed by her abuser when she was just six years old — her abuser would frequently take her out of school to attack her. She said, “He had threatened to kill me and my family so severely. He told me if he ever showed up at my school then I had to go with him or he would kill people.”
Feeling like her loved ones’ lives were in her hands, she said she did as she was told and was abused many, many times, physically and mentally. Baldree said her abuser would constantly tell her she was “God’s mistake,” and that her attacker would add a religious element to the abuse. “He would use scriptures. He would connect things like, ‘This is like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,” Baldree said.
At the time, no one knew what was happening to her. She said she
could disassociate from the abuse, so when she returned to class she
would appear as if nothing happened. Decades later, memories of her
abuse came flooding back. As far as she knows, her abuser was never
arrested or charged….
Randall said, “A ritualistic abuser is going to be somebody who will use
whatever tools they have, whether that’s school, whether that’s church,
whether it’s work, whatever tool they have to set up a plan to keep the
victim quiet.” If the bill passes, ritualistic abuse charges would be
used to enhance the sentences against someone convicted of child abuse,
meaning they could spend more time in prison. It would also require law
enforcement to go through the latest child abuse prevention training to
spot the signs of possible ritualistic abuse….
Randall disagreed, saying his office has investigated multiple claims of ritualistic abuse in recent years. “One of the biggest aspects of this bill is the acknowledgment that these things have happened in the past, so that these victims come forward and we can get them services. We can get them help,” Randall said.
The bill got unanimous support from the Judiciary Committee, so it can go straight to the House floor when the legislative session starts. https://kjzz.com/news/local/lawmakers-working-to-introduce-bill-giving-ritualistic-abusers-more-time-in-prison
New bill proposed for Utah to heighten punishment for child torture by Paul Nelson, KUTVWed, November 13th 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Prosecutors and lawmakers in Utah have said they were stunned to learn there was essentially no law against child torture in the state, adding that two high-profile abuse cases in Utah convinced them that needs to change.
If a new bill passes, it would give serious prison time to anyone convicted of torturing a child. However, some supporters have doubts that it would actually prevent cases like this from happening in the first place.
Supporters of a bill being drafted said aggravated child abuse may sound like a very serious charge, but it’s just a second-degree felony. When it comes to the constant torture that victims like Ruby Franke’s children went through, they don’t believe abusers get enough time behind bars….
Clarke said, “100 percent. I feel like what happened in that case was torture of those children.” He’s drafting a bill that would make child torture a stand-alone first-degree felony, with a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison. When does a case of abuse cross the line into torture?
Dr. Antoinette Laskey, Primary Children’s Hospital’s Child Abuse Medical Director, said, “Child torture cases are cases that often involve multiple different kinds of child abuse over an extended period of time. They can include physical abuse, confinement, starvation and severe psychological abuse.”
Laskey said abusers all over the country are using many of the same tactics, like binding kids with ropes or handcuffs, starving children, physical abuse and excessive athletic exercise. Plus, she said many of them are documenting what they’re doing.
“These are caregivers that are video taping and literally have their
children on security cameras 24 hours a day and are capturing footage
of what is happening to them,” she said. Laskey said her team has
treated 12 child torture patients since 2020, which is far more than she
ever saw during the first 15 years of her career — and they don’t know
why it’s happening.
“What’s really upsetting is that, nationally, we’re seeing this as a
trend that we don’t really understand. While we’re seeing it here in
Utah, this is not a unique-to-Utah phenomenon. I’ve had a number of
cases that come from surrounding states that are remarkably similar,”
Laskey said.
Kevin Franke, Ruby Franke’s former husband, supports the bill, believing child welfare laws need a major overhaul in Utah. He said, “The child welfare laws that we have in this state, right now, tend to strongly protect parents, parents’ privacy and parents’ rights as opposed to children, children’s rights, children’s protections, children’s safety and well-being.”….
District 29 Sen. Don Ipson is sponsoring the bill, which he believes
has strong support. It’s hard to predict whether the bill will be
enough to convince abusers to stop targeting kids. “I think it’s hard to
decide what’s going to be a deterrent to someone who has that sick of a
mind. What is the deterrent, for them? But, we’ve got to try, and we’ve
got to make penalties if it’s not a deterrent,” Ipson said. Along with
ten years in prison, anyone convicted of child torture would also be
placed on the Sex, Kidnap and Child Abuse Offender Registry if the bill
passes. Ipson said they’re going to keep fine-tuning the bill before
they present it to the legislature.
https://kutv.com/news/2news-investigates/new-bill-proposed-for-utah-to-heighten-punishment-for-child-torture#
CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection
National Security Archive Publishes Key Records on Infamous MKULTRA Program Agency Sought Drugs and Behavior Control Techniques to Use in “Special Interrogations” and Offensive Operations
Sidney Gottlieb’s CIA Personnel File, 1983 Deposition Testimony, Among Newly Available Documents1
Washington, D.C., December 23, 2024 – Today, the National Security Archive and ProQuest (part of Clarivate) celebrate the publication of a new scholarly document collection many years in the making on the shocking secret history of the CIA’s mind control research programs. The new collection, CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA, brings together more than 1,200 essential records on one of the most infamous and abusive programs in CIA history.
Under code names that included MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE, the CIA conducted terrifying experiments using drugs, hypnosis, isolation, sensory deprivation, and other extreme techniques on human subjects, often U.S. citizens, who frequently had no idea what was being done to them or that they were part of a CIA test.
Today’s announcement comes 50 years after a New York Times
investigation by Seymour Hersh touched off probes that would bring
MKULTRA abuses to light. The new collection also comes 70 years since
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company first developed a
process to streamline the manufacture of LSD in late 1954, becoming the
CIA’s chief supplier of the newly discovered psychoactive chemical
central to many of the Agency’s behavior control efforts.
Highlights of the new MKULTRA collection include:
A DCI-approved plan in 1950 for the establishment of “interrogation
teams” that would “utilize the polygraph, drugs, and hypnotism to attain
the greatest results in interrogation techniques.” (Document 2)
A 1951 memo that captures a meeting between CIA and foreign intelligence officials about mind control research and their shared interest in the concept of individual mind control. (Document 3)
A 1952 entry from the daily calendar of George White, a federal narcotics agent who ran a safehouse where the CIA tested drugs like LSD and performed other experiments on unwitting Americans. (Document 5)
A 1952 report on the “successful” use of ARTICHOKE interrogation methods that combined the use of “narcosis” and “hypnosis” to induce regression and later amnesia on “Russian agents suspected of being doubled.” (Document 6)
A 1956 memo in which MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb signs off a project that would “evaluate the effects of large doses of LSD-25 in normal human volunteers” on federal prisoners in Atlanta. (Document 13)
The 1963 report from the CIA’s inspector general, which led CIA leadership to reexamine the use of unwitting Americans in their covert drug testing program. (Document 16)
The 1983 deposition of MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb in a civil case brought by Velma “Val” Orlikow, a victim of CIA-sponsored projects conducted by Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. (Document 20)
The challenges facing this documentation project were considerable, as CIA director Richard Helms and longtime MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb destroyed most of the original project records in 1973. It is a story about secrecy—perhaps the most infamous cover-up in the Agency’s history. It is also a history marked by near-total impunity at the institutional and individual levels for countless abuses committed across decades—not during interrogations of enemy agents or in wartime situations, but during ordinary medical treatments, inside prison hospitals, addiction clinics, and juvenile detention facilities, and in many cases led by top figures in the field of the behavioral sciences. Despite the Agency’s efforts to erase this hidden history, the documents that survived this purge and that have been gathered together here present a compelling and unsettling narrative of the CIA’s decades-long effort to discover and test ways to erase and re-program the human mind.
The bulk of these records were drawn from records compiled by John
Marks, the former State Department official who filed the first Freedom
of Information Act requests on the subject and whose 1979 book, The
Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The
Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences (New York, W. W. Norton &
Company, 1979) remains the single most important source on this episode.
Marks later donated his FOIA documents and other research papers to the
National Security Archive….
The legacy of MKULTRA goes far beyond the various “subprojects”
described in these documents and that were largely shut down by the
mid-1970s. As author Stephen Kinzer points out, the CIA’s behavior
control research programs “contributed decisively to the development of
techniques that Americans and their allies used at detention centers in
Vietnam, Latin America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and secret
prisons around the world.”
MKULTRA techniques were cited in the CIA’s 1963 KUBARK interrogation
manual that was the basis for prisoner interrogations in Vietnam and
later in anti-communist dictatorships in Latin America.[1]
While many of the MKULTRA projects were conducted in hospitals,
laboratories, or other institutional settings, others were carried out
in clandestine CIA safehouses staffed not by doctors or clinicians but
by hard-nosed federal narcotics agents like George Hunter White. Under
the direction of Gottlieb, White adopted the persona of a bohemian
artist named “Morgan Hall” to lure unsuspecting victims to his “pad”
where he and his CIA collaborators secretly experimented on them and
recorded their behavior. An OSS veteran who had worked on “truth drug”
development for the Army in World War II, White surreptitiously dosed
many of his victims with LSD, a drug that the CIA had in abundance
thanks to Eli Lilly, which had developed the capacity to produce the
drug in “tonnage quantities” and had agreed to become the Agency’s
supplier. Gottlieb, his deputy Robert Lashbrook, and CIA psychologist
John Gittinger are among the CIA officials who frequently visited
White’s safehouses….
Although MKULTRA was approved at the highest levels, it operated with virtually no oversight. As Marks notes, the initial MKULTRA budget authorization “exempted the program from the normal CIA financial controls” and “allowed TSS to start up research projects ‘without the signing of the usual contracts or other written agreements.’”[3] With little accountability, boundless resources, and the backing of CIA covert operations chief Richard Helms, Gottlieb and his staff at TSS developed a series of bizarre experiments that they believed would enhance covert intelligence operations while at the same time improving the Agency’s defenses against the use of similar techniques by enemy forces.
By the time Gottlieb arrived at CIA in 1952, Project BLUEBIRD, which explored “the possibility of control of an individual by application of Special Interrogation techniques,” was already well underway.[4] Led by Office of Security chief Morse Allen, the early BLUEBIRD experiments were performed by teams that included polygraph experts and psychologists and were conducted on detainees and suspected informants at secret U.S. interrogation facilities in Japan and Germany.
The elevation of Allen Dulles to deputy director of central intelligence in 1951 led to an expansion of BLUEBIRD programs under a new name, ARTICHOKE, and under the direction of Gottlieb at TSS. The new program was to include, among other projects, the development of “gas guns” and “poisons,” and experiments to test whether “monotonous sounds,” “concussion,” “electroshock,” and “induced sleep” could be used as a means to gain “hypnotic control of an individual.”[5]
It was under ARTICHOKE that the Agency first began to more systematically recruit the top researchers and court the most prestigious institutions to collaborate in its mind control research. One of the first to participate was the deputy director of Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Dr. Robert Hyde, who in 1949 was the first American to “trip” on LSD after the hospital acquired samples of the drug from Sandoz laboratory in Switzerland. In 1952, the CIA began to fund the hospital’s LSD research, under which Hyde used himself, his colleagues, student volunteers, and hospital patients as his subjects. Hyde would work on four MKULTRA subprojects over the next decade.
Shortly after Dulles became DCI in 1953, he authorized MKULTRA, expanding the Agency’s behavior control research and refocusing it on the development of “a capability in the covert use of biological and chemical materials” in “present and future clandestine operations.”[6] Many of the 149 MKULTRA subprojects were carried out through well-regarded universities like Cornell, Georgetown, Rutgers, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, the chairman of the Department of Pharmacology of Emory University, directed four MKULTRA subprojects, all of which involved the use of drugs, including LSD, to induce psychotic states. The horrifying series of experiments left many of his subjects—including prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and juveniles housed at a detention facility in Bordentown, New Jersey—scarred for life.
Many other MKULTRA subprojects were established through grants from false foundations funded by the CIA. One of these, the Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, run by Dr. Charles Geschickter, a professor of pathology at Georgetown University, steered millions of CIA dollars into research programs at Georgetown and other institutions. As part of the agreement, the CIA gained access to a medical safehouse at the newly constructed Gorman Annex of Georgetown University Hospital along with a ready supply of patients and students to use as subjects for MKULTRA experiments.
Another prominent MKULTRA “cutout” foundation, the Human Ecology Society, was run by Cornell Medical Center neurologist Dr. Harold Wolff, who wrote an early study of communist brainwashing techniques for Allen Dulles and later partnered with the CIA to develop a combination of drugs and sensory deprivation that could be used to erase the human mind. Among the most extreme MKULTRA projects funded through Wolff’s group were the infamous “depatterning” experiments conducted by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute, a psychiatric hospital at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Cameron’s methods combined induced sleep, electroshocks, and “psychic driving,” under which drugged subjects were psychologically tortured for weeks or months in an effort to reprogram their minds.
These records also shed light on an especially dark period in the
history of the behavioral sciences in which some of the top physicians
in the field conducted research and experiments usually associated with
the Nazi doctors who were tried at Nuremberg. While some medical
professionals engaged by the CIA apparently struggled with the ethical
issues raised by conducting harmful tests on unwitting human subjects,
others were eager to participate in a program in which, according to one
1953 memo, “no area of the human mind is to be left unexplored.”[7]
Just as CIA psychologists later oversaw the torture of prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay and at CIA “black sites,” during the first decades of the
21st century, many of the doctors and clinicians recruited for MKULTRA
work were leaders in the field, whose participation boosted the prestige
of the program and drew others into it. Scholars and researchers
looking at the involvement of psychologists and other medical
professionals in the horrific U.S. detention and interrogation programs
that have been exposed in recent years will find parallels and
historical antecedents throughout this collection….
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly
Digital National Security Archive (DNSA): CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA
This collection explores the Central Intelligence Agency’s foray into behavioral and mind control experiments in the 1950s and 1960s. Most commonly known as Project MKULTRA, which refers to the research carried out by the CIA and affiliated institutions between 1953-1963, this codename came to be used as an umbrella term for an array of scientific, psychological, and military endeavors that began well before the official start of MKULTRA in 1953 and that continued in the years after the project officially ended. In this collection, researchers will find many documents relating to MKULTRA as well as its predecessors, Project BLUEBIRD and Project ARTICHOKE, and its various sister projects and successors, including MKNAOMI, MKDELTA and MKSEARCH. This collection also contains records relating to investigations into the CIA’s mind control program, both by the Agency itself and Congress, during the mid to late 1970s. The set has been carefully curated to highlight the clearest, most substantive documents available on MKULTRA and to focus on those records that provide insight into the scope and purpose of the Agency’s mind control program.
Most of the documents were donated to the National Security Archive by John Marks, the author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a book widely considered to be the most authoritative recounting of the CIA’s involvement in behavior and mind control experiments. They consist primarily of CIA records Marks obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Another source for the collection are documents that the CIA released to the family of Frank Olson, an Army biochemist who died in 1953 after he was secretly administered LSD by a CIA employee and then fell from a 10th-story window. Congressional hearings and testimony and the CIA’s reading room were also researched to supplement the collection. https://proquest.libguides.com/dnsa/64
CIA’s 1963 KUBARK interrogation manual
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB27/docs/doc01.pdf
Deposition of Sidney Gottlieb, PhD, in Civil Action No. 80-3163, Mrs. David Orlikow, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. United States of America, Defendant, May 17, 1983, 174 pp. Date May 17, 1983
Description
This is the second of three depositions of Sidney Gottlieb by attorneys
representing Velma “Val” Orlikow, a former patient of the Allan Memorial
Institute, where CIA-backed staff performed horrific experiments on
psychiatric patients during the 1950s and 60s.
Asked whether he was involved in “domestic field experimentation”
with LSD, Gottlieb said, “If by what you mean ‘field experimentation’,
is experiments that involve – that are taking place outside of
Washington, D.C., and if by my personal involvement, you mean, was I
aware of them or did I have something to do with their instigation, the
answer is yes.” When Gottlieb is shown a document indicating that he had
personally conducted an interrogation, he claims confusion before
admitting that he had indeed been involved in “between one and five”
interrogations…..
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/32736-document-20-deposition-sidney-gottlieb-phd-civil-action-no-80-3163-mrs-david-orlikow
Notorious daycare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith sentenced to life in prison for abusing children in Australia and Italy By Eden Gillespie 11/29/2024
One of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles has been sentenced to life
in prison after confessing to raping and abusing scores of children in
daycare centres in Australia and overseas.
Former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith pleaded guilty in September to more than 300 charges against 69 children in early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy over almost two decades.
Griffith will have a non-parole period of 27 years, with Judge Paul Smith describing his offending as “depraved”. He won’t be eligible to apply until 2049….
He said Griffith’s “risk of re-offending would be high” if he was released into the community. “This was very serious, offending in terms of length and scale. The victims were very vulnerable, and there was a significant breach of trust,” Judge Smith said. Judge Smith said the case warranted the maximum penalty due to the length of the offences, the number of victims, their age and vulnerability, the planning involved, and the fact that he uploaded the abuse online….
Griffith was initially charged with more than 1,000 offences by the AFP in 2022 after they found thousands of photographs and videos related to his abuse on the dark web.
Hundreds of charges were later dropped. The 307 offences against 69 children occurred between 2003 and 2022.
They include 190 counts of indecent treatment, 28 counts of rape, 67
counts of making child exploitation material, four counts of producing
child abuse material outside of Australia, and 15 counts of repeated
sexual conduct with a child.
Most of the victims were aged between two and five years old, but one could have been as young as one. Ashley Paul Griffith is being sentenced in the District Court in Brisbane after pleading guilty to 307 charges against 69 children at early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy. Griffith’s sentencing began on Thursday, with victims sharing harrowing statements about how his abuse had impacted them.
The court heard he had offended against his victims while they were awake and asleep. When they were awake, he often gave them an iPad to distract them. Some of the abuse lasted up to 30 minutes and occurred when other children were nearby.
The court heard he filmed much of the abuse and would regularly go
back and review the footage he made for his own sexual gratification. He
would also upload the abuse to a child exploitation site on the dark
web and left comments advising other people how they could abuse
children….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/daycare-paedophile-ashley-paul-griffith-sentencing/104663114
Here’s what you need to know about the Pelicot trial Paul Kirby BBC 12/19/2024 Judges in the French city of Avignon have sentenced Dominique Pelicot to 20 years in prison for aggravated rape after he drugged and abused his then wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and invited dozens of strangers to rape her. Dominique stood accused alongside 50 other men. Of the 50 co-defendants found guilty, 46 were found guilty of rape, two guilty of attempted rape, and two guilty of sexual assault.
For almost a decade, Gisèle Pelicot was unknowingly given sedatives by her ex-husband, who has admitted to raping her and inviting men he had recruited online to have sex with her in her bed at home while she was unconscious and unaware. Although Dominique Pelicot admitted the charges against him, most of the other men on trial denied what they did was rape.
It was Gisèle’s decision to waive her anonymity and throw this trial into the open – in her words, making “shame swap sides” from the victim to the rapist – something which has turned the 72-year-old into a feminist icon. Dominique has also been found guilty of attempted aggravated rape of the wife of one of the co-accused, Jean-Pierre Marechal – who admitted drugging and raping his own wife, Cillia, and inviting Dominique to rape her too. Marechal was found guilty of attempted rape and aggravated rape. Dominique Pelicot was further convicted of taking indecent images of his daughter, Caroline, and his daughters-in-law, Aurore and Celine.
“I am a rapist,” he previously told the judges. “I acknowledge all the facts [of the case] in their entirety.” He had begged his ex-wife and three children for forgiveness, but his actions have torn the Pelicot family apart. Prosecutors had asked for jail sentences for the defendants ranging from four years to 20 years, the maximum sentence for a charge of aggravated rape….
From 2011 to 2020, Dominique Pelicot plied his wife with
tranquilising drugs and sleeping pills without her knowledge, crushed
them into powder and added them to her food and drink. Gisèle Pelicot
suffered memory loss and blackouts because of the drugs and she has
spoken of 10 years of her life that have been lost. He was eventually
caught because a security guard reported him to police for taking
photographs under women’s skirts in a supermarket.
“I thought we were a close couple,” she once told the court. Instead,
her husband was going on a notorious but now banned website called
Coco.fr to invite local men to their home to have sex with her while she
was comatose….
Not only has this case been held in full view of the public, but the
evidence against all the accused was recorded on video by Dominique
Pelicot at the time and then played out in court. Gisèle Pelicot, who
has divorced her husband, said the men “treated me like a rag doll”.
“Don’t talk to me about sex scenes. These are rape scenes,” she said.
Therefore none of those accused has been able to challenge the
allegation that they were in Gisèle Pelicot’s room while she was
comatose….
Gisèle Pelicot has attended almost every day of the trial, appearing at the court in her sunglasses just before nine o’clock. Her decision to waive her anonymity is highly unusual, but she has stood firm at every moment. “I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too.”…. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c390d8nd4n4o
Paris Hilton-backed child abuse bill headed to Biden’s desk for signature The measure requires more federal oversight of the ‘troubled teen’ industry. ByIsabella Murray December 18, 2024
The House passed the Paris Hilton-championed Stop Institutionalized Child Abuse bill on Wednesday, a sweet victory for the celebrity hotel heiress after the nearly three years she’s spent lobbying politicians in Washington on the issue of reform in the “troubled teen” industry.
The measure that would require more federal oversight into these
facilities for troubled minors passed by a vote of 373-33. All those who
voted against the legislation were Republican, most from the far-right
faction of the party….
The Senate passed the bill a week ago with unanimous support. It now
heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature…. Hilton for years
has been an advocate for reform in congregate care facilities and
residential treatment programs for “troubled” minors. She’s brazenly
described her own traumatizing experience at Provo Canyon School in Utah
when she was a teenager.
Hilton also testified before the House Ways and Means Committee in June, emotionally recounting her experience being at Provo Canyon School as a teen. “These programs promised healing, growth, and support, but instead did not allow me to speak, move freely, or even look out a window for two years,” she testified in 2023. “I was force-fed medications and sexually abused by the staff. I was violently restrained and dragged down hallways, stripped naked, and thrown into solitary confinement.”
The Provo school in Utah, which is still operating today, released
an updated statement in June 2024 saying they couldn’t comment on the
operations or student experiences at the school prior to August 2000,
when it had changed ownership shortly after Hilton’s stint there. Provo
said it did not “condone or promote any form of abuse,” in their
statement.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/paris-hilton-backed-child-abuse-bill-headed-bidens/story?id=116917971
Paris Hilton Celebrates Congress Passing Her Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act: ‘This Is a Day I’ll Never Forget’ “This moment is proof that our voices matter, that speaking out can spark change,” the reality TV star said By Angel Saunders Updated on December 18, 2024 Paris Hilton is celebrating a huge milestone after using her celebrity and personal experience to enact protections for institutionalized youth. “Today is a day I will never forget,” the celebrity DJ, 43, began as the caption to a 20-photo Instagram carousel on Wednesday, Dec. 18. “After years of sharing my story and advocating on Capitol Hill, the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act has officially passed the U.S Congress,” she said.
