Woman sues hotel chains, claims they turned blind eye to alleged sex trafficking

A pistillate is suing 3 edifice chains, claiming absorption knew she was being trafficked and benefited from the business, allowing her to beryllium raped astir a 1000 times.

In the suit filed Tuesday successful Los Angeles County Superior Court, a pistillate identified arsenic Jane AB Doe alleged edifice workers astatine Wyndham Hotel Group, Red Roof Inn and a franchisor for respective Motel 6 outlets successful California and Texas knew what was happening, enabled it and occasionally participated.

The suit claims Doe was “raped astir 1 1000 (1,000) times” astatine 8 hotels successful the 2 states, according to ineligible documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

Complicity ranged from edifice employees witnessing Doe being trafficked, to “actively” helping the trafficker perpetrate the crime, to watching Doe being raped, to participating successful a rape themselves, the suit stated, the Los Angeles Times reported. At champion employees ignored “obvious signs of abuse” arsenic Doe was visibly bruised, malnourished oregon drugged.

The California locations were successful downtown Los Angeles and the suburb of Gardena, some Motel 6s, the suit said. In Texas, a Red Roof Inn successful Houston, a Studio 6 successful Dallas, and a Days Inn and a Super 8 owned by Wyndham were besides named, though their locations were not given.

“These defendants’ failure to analyse and show quality trafficking is capable to found defendants knew oregon should person known of quality trafficking for commercialized enactment occurring astatine their marque properties, including the locations wherever Plaintiff was trafficked,” the ailment said, according to KTTV-TV.

Doe had tally distant from kid protective services successful Dallas astatine property 13, and met the trafficker soon after; helium allegedly sexually assaulted her astatine gunpoint and forced her to perpetrate enactment acts, the suit stated, KTTV reported.

The trafficker would imprison her successful assorted edifice rooms, and workers stood by arsenic “her trafficker would beat, yell, and torment Doe often and loudly successful the nationalist communal areas of the hotels successful which she was trafficked,” the suit stated.

Several lawsuits person been filed successful caller years attempting to clasp hotels accountable for allegedly turning a unsighted oculus to enactment trafficking.