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Rick and Kathy Hilton leave the Twin
Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles June 12, 2007. The couple were
there to visit their daughter, Paris Hilton, who is serving a jail
sentence for violating her probation on a driving under the influence of
alcohol charge. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>> |
BEIJING, Jun 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The parents of Paris Hilton
visited their daughter Tuesday, shortly after the Los Angeles County Board of
Supervisors ordered Sheriff Lee Baca to respond by next week to allegations of
favoritism for reassigning Hilton.
Hilton's parents breezed past people standing in line for
hours and raised more questions of whether the hotel heiress was receiving
special treatment. After her visit, Kathy Hilton said her daughter wants "just
to do her time and get on." She added her daughter has not had much sleep.
Steve Whitmore, a sheriff's spokesman, said it was
routine for high-profile inmates to receive visitors during lunch, a time when
the visiting room is normally cleared out and closed.
The area where Hilton was being housed was usually
reserved for high-security inmates or those worse off than Hilton has appeared
according to Mary Tiedeman, who regularly visits the jails as a monitor for the
ACLU.
County Supervisor Don Knabe said he and his
colleagues had received many angry e-mails from people who believed Baca was
treating the heiress better than other sick and mentally ill inmates.
The sheriff, who was traveling to Istanbul for an
anti-terrorism conference, did not attend Tuesday's board meeting.
(Agencies)