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Hilton's parents visit, raise questions

Hilton's parents visit, raise questions

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)
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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)

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