DALLAS, TX - A woman identified only as Jane AB Doe has launched a massive lawsuit against three of the largest chains of hotels in the United States: Motel 6 franchisor G6 Hospitality LLC, Wyndham Hotel Group and Red Roof Inn. The lawsuit alleges that when she was 13 years old, she fled Child Protective Services only to find herself the victim of a sex trafficking operation.
As reported by the LA Times, the victim reported that the pimp she met first put a gun to her head and forced her to perform sex acts at hotels owned by the three chains in both Los Angeles and Texas.
According to court documents filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the woman alleges that she was “raped nearly one thousand (1,000) times” at hotels owned by the three firms, and charges that the three chains are liable because employees at the various hotels were aware of her plight as a victim of sex trafficking and that the companies “enjoy the steady stream of income that sex traffickers bring to their hotels.”
This lawsuit is the latest of hundreds that have been filed against U.S. hotel chains for alleged complicity in sex trafficking. The woman’s attorneys alleged in the lawsuit that under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act the hotel chains are liable for both compensatory and punitive damages.
The law was expanded in 2008 to allow survivors of sexual exploitation to sue any person or business benefiting from the illegal enterprise if they were aware or could have been aware that they were enabling it.
“Often, hotel employees would not only witness Jane AB Doe being trafficked, but they would actively help her trafficker perpetrate the crime,” she asserted in the complaint. Adding the hotel employees “on some occasions would even watch Jane AB Doe as she was being raped or participate in the rape themselves.” She further alleged that the employees would ignore “obvious signs of abuse,” such as visible bruising on her body, malnourishment, intoxication, and wearing inappropriate clothing.
In the lawsuit, attorneys representing Doe explained that in at least one incident cleaning staff explained to their client that they had been “warned by the front desk not to service that room.” They also added that her traffickers would call for “specific room requests so as to find convenient entrances for buyers. Defendants would even instruct AB, her trafficker, and buyer[s] to use certain entrances [and] exits so as not to be seen.”
The woman alleges that all of the hotels “financially benefited from the sex trafficking of Jane AB Doe and other victims like her and developed and maintained business models that attract and foster the commercial sex market for traffickers."
As reported by the LA Times, the victim reported that the pimp she met first put a gun to her head and forced her to perform sex acts at hotels owned by the three chains in both Los Angeles and Texas.
According to court documents filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the woman alleges that she was “raped nearly one thousand (1,000) times” at hotels owned by the three firms, and charges that the three chains are liable because employees at the various hotels were aware of her plight as a victim of sex trafficking and that the companies “enjoy the steady stream of income that sex traffickers bring to their hotels.”
This lawsuit is the latest of hundreds that have been filed against U.S. hotel chains for alleged complicity in sex trafficking. The woman’s attorneys alleged in the lawsuit that under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act the hotel chains are liable for both compensatory and punitive damages.
The law was expanded in 2008 to allow survivors of sexual exploitation to sue any person or business benefiting from the illegal enterprise if they were aware or could have been aware that they were enabling it.
“Often, hotel employees would not only witness Jane AB Doe being trafficked, but they would actively help her trafficker perpetrate the crime,” she asserted in the complaint. Adding the hotel employees “on some occasions would even watch Jane AB Doe as she was being raped or participate in the rape themselves.” She further alleged that the employees would ignore “obvious signs of abuse,” such as visible bruising on her body, malnourishment, intoxication, and wearing inappropriate clothing.
In the lawsuit, attorneys representing Doe explained that in at least one incident cleaning staff explained to their client that they had been “warned by the front desk not to service that room.” They also added that her traffickers would call for “specific room requests so as to find convenient entrances for buyers. Defendants would even instruct AB, her trafficker, and buyer[s] to use certain entrances [and] exits so as not to be seen.”
The woman alleges that all of the hotels “financially benefited from the sex trafficking of Jane AB Doe and other victims like her and developed and maintained business models that attract and foster the commercial sex market for traffickers."
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2025-02-10T10:55-0500 | Comment by: thomas
She should be suing her pimp