Honk News (San Dimas, CA) – A woman has filed a lawsuit against Motel 6 and several other motel chains, claiming they permitted her to be trafficked and assaulted nearly a thousand times.
A report from the Los Angeles Times reveals that the woman claims in her complaint that G6 Hospitality LLC, Wyndham Hotel Group, and Red Roof Inn are responsible for her forced servitude, as hotel staff were aware of and even took part in her victimization.
A woman, referred to in court documents as Jane A.B. Doe, claims that at the age of 13, she escaped from child protective services in Dallas and encountered a pimp who coerced her at gunpoint into engaging in sexual acts at three different hotel chains located in California and Texas. Following that, Doe claimed she was “raped nearly one thousand (1,000) times” at different Motel 6 and Red Roof Inn locations, with staff reportedly ignoring the situation.
Doe stated that hotel staff would not only observe her being trafficked but would also “actively assist her trafficker in committing the crime,” and, at times, “would even watch Jane AB Doe as she was being assaulted or take part in the assault themselves.”
Doe claimed that the hotels directed cleaning personnel to avoid servicing her rooms, that hotel employees would assign rooms conveniently located for the pimp, and would even guide A.B. and her trafficker on which entrances and exits to use to remain unnoticed.
The lawsuit alleges that the hotels profited from the exploitation of Jane AB Doe and other victims, creating and sustaining business practices that appeal to and support the commercial sex industry for traffickers, while seeking unspecified damages.