US entrepreneur and socialite Paris Hilton recounts the abuse she suffered at congregate care facilities, also known as the "troubled teen industry," and urges passage of legislation that would create a bill of rights for children placed in those facilities. "For 20 years I couldn’t sleep at night as memories of physical violence, the feeling of loneliness, the loss of peers rushed through my mind when I shut my eyes. This was not just insomnia, it was trauma," Hilton says in a speech outside the US Capitol in Washington.

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