CBS News reported that US authorities have revoked the license of the boarding school where American star Paris Hilton said she was subjected to physical and psychological abuse and isolation during her adolescence.
A CBS report stated that "Utah has revoked the license of a boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager. Authorities said the school 'failed to provide adequate health and safety services for students.'"
The school in question is Provo Canyon High School in Springville, which has been ordered to close until August 6.
Hilton spent about a year at the school in the late 1990s. She maintains that staff members beat her, spied on her in the bathroom, forced her to take unknown pills, and locked her up alone without clothes.
The channel noted that Hilton testified against the school before Congress and state legislatures across the country, and helped enact laws protecting teenagers in Utah and other states.
In June, Hilton also supported two families who filed lawsuits alleging that their children were being bullied at school.
In explaining its decision, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services cited multiple violations at the educational institution, including child abuse and failure to protect its clients from violence.
Hilton, in turn, wrote a post on Instagram, saying: "I've been waiting to write these words since I was 17 years old... Provo Canyon School is closed."
She added: "I dreamed of the day I would stand outside those gates and say that no child there would ever suffer again... Provo Canyon School messed with the wrong girl, and with thousands of survivors who refused to be silent for decades about what we all went through."
She continued: "This victory is for every survivor who told her story, for every family who demanded accountability, for every advocate who never gave up, and for everyone who believed us when so many others didn't... Today, for the first time in a long time, I feel something I never imagined: peace."
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