Hotel sexual assaults on the rise as predators given access to women’s rooms in horrifying trend: law firm

NY Post ^ | 3/5/2023 | MaryAnn Martinez

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Horrifying cases of women being raped in their rooms at top hotel chains are taking place because staff are allegedly handing over keys to sexual predators unchecked, The Post can reveal.

Two separate cases in Texas claim men broke into women’s rooms after lying to staff to obtain keycards.

In an even more shocking incident, one man was allegedly able to convince police and hotel staff to deliver his victim to his own room at a Hilton-owned property.

One alleged unwanted entry was only foiled when a quick thinking woman slammed a door on an intruder’s hand — severing his finger clean off in the process.

Outlining a December 2022 incident at a Holiday Inn Express & Suites, a lawyer representing a victim, who hails from Milwaukee, told The Post: “The woman was asleep and she woke up to the man crouched at the foot of her bed with his pants undone and a condom out.

“She was able to scream and get him out of the room, and she immediately called down to the front desk. They admitted, ‘Oh yes, we did give a key to the man. He said he knew you.’”

The would-be rapist had allegedly followed the victim, who asked not to be named, back to her hotel in Gonzales before convincing the front desk to give him the key.

The accused attacker was arrested and arraigned on a felony charge of attempted sexual assault, in a case which is ongoing.

Holiday Inn did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

“Almost every hotel chain I’ve seen has a policy in place that says under no circumstance can you issue a key to someone’s room without verifying with an identification that that person is registered to the room,” said Anna Greenberg of Blizzard Law,