Paris Hilton Pleads for Adopted Teen Dumped By Christian Parents in Jamaica
The heiress and media personality Paris Hilton was among those voicing support this month for Elijah Goldman, a 17-year-old Michigan boy who was allegedly abandoned in Jamaica for months by his adoptive parents after the troubled-teen boarding school they shipped him off to was shuttered over horrific abuse claims.
Elijah arrived home in Traverse City on Sept. 3, seven months after his school closed down. Mark and Spring Goldman, who adopted Elijah from Haiti at the age of 10, never arrived to collect him, and the teenager was sent to a series of Jamaican group homes, according to a recent investigation by the Detroit Free Press.
Five days after Elijah landed back in the United States, Hilton tweeted out a link to the Free Press’ story to her 16.4 million followers, saying that the teen “needs our help.”