Posted on 03/19/2025 5:02:47 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Attorneys for three women, who were victims of sex trafficking, have announced their clients have agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement with the owners of three hotels located along Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia after claiming the businesses didn't do enough to protect them.
In a statement, attorneys with Kline & Specter said their clients, three women who said they were victims of sex trafficking when they were minors, will receive $17.5 million from the Motel 6, Days Inn and North American Motor Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
Unbelievable low budget. Hotels are now guilty for this type of situation. What the hell is wrong with our judicial system?
I’m socially blind. I would generally not be able to tell somebody might be trafficked.
I am hoping that this article is reporting only on the barest facts, because on the face of it, I would side with the hotels.
So I'm assuming that, in actual fact, there was ample evidence of sex-trafficking that even a laymen couldn't have ignored (like the same underaged girl coming to the same hotel multiple times over the course of a single evening, with different "uncles" using different surnames).
Hotel check-in clerks are not Law Enforcement Officers, nor should they be expected to be constantly "on the look-out" for subtle clues about possible crimes taking place.
They should not, e.g., be expected to be able to discern, at a glance, whether a young person is still a minor; and the word of the "guardian" that the young person in question is a daughter or niece should suffice.
Having said that, the article mentions LEOs having made multiple visits to the hotels in question - so I assume that the LEOs made it very clear that certain persons were under suspicion, etc. And that the hotels refused to cooperate.
Again: In view of the lack of hard facts here, we can only speculate.
Regards,
Watch when you check in to a hotel. You will see Grandpa checking in with a kid and it is creepy.
I tried to get a night job at a hotel (audit)
Had to go there late to catch a manager who was covering until a new person was hired
After talking a bit, our eyes met again and I knew something was wrong. I just couldn’t put my finger on what it was.
A couple of years later, a cop told me the place was shut down because of ... sex trafficking.
It was closed for a couple of years but now I think it’s open again - perhaps under a different chain
Why are the hotels liable. Does a hotel have a duty to report certain things to the police?
Was your experience in the US...or Germany?
My post began by mentioning that I had been a minimum-wage night clerk.
Prior to 2015, there was no statutory minimum wage in effect in Germany.
Do you have any further specific questions about working as a night clerk? Please send me a private message if you are interested in learning more about a possible career in this exciting and interesting commercial sector!
My experience is limited to the hotel night clerk business during the Carter Administration, but...
Regards,
There is a hotel in the DC area that has been accused.. Yelp reviews from the hotel have women’s posts about men trying to break in - some using electronic keys.
https://www.newsweek.com/woman-claims-man-attempted-break-her-hotel-room-1am-viral-tweet-1639346
The excerpt is maddeningly skimpy on substantive details. One is forced to imagine that Law Enforcement Officers had repeatedly approached the hotels, spoken with hotel management, indicated that the police were monitoring the activities of specific persons who had been seen at specific times at the hotels in question, etc. - but that the hotels had totally failed to cooperate.
The cryptic reference to "training of hotel staff" is disturbing, because I don't believe that hotels should be required to train their employees about such things (though as long as the hotels instituted such training programs voluntarily, I would have no objection).
Regards,
What the hell is wrong with Big Hospitality...
They’re willing for the shilling.
That was my first thought as well.
Now, if they ignored reports and inquiries from the police, that would be something different.
I think I witnessed a woman selling her daughter to a sex trafficker many years ago. But at the time I didn’t know such a thing existed. I overheard much of the transaction.
My brother is a large muscular man and his first wife was a tiny thing. The police questioned him several times when they stayed at motel rooms.
I imagine that some big name hotels in New York, Chicago, Denver, LA have a certain amount of prostitution and sex trafficking that happen on a daily basis, so who is checking on these folks, watching out for those ladies (and men) who are being trafficked?
What the hell is wrong with our judicial system?
It’s infested with whores they protect each other.
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As a boy one of my great pleasures was taking the bus to downtown Houston and watching the adults all day, the hustle and bustle, the sidewalk oyster bars and the business men, the attractive women, the original James Coney Island in that rundown building with the best chili dogs ever, the fights of the winos, the quiet discussions of a woman and and a man and then disappearing through one of those almost invisible doors with no markings in between the storefronts, and the comings and goings of those sleazy little downtown hotels.
Back then downtown adults didn’t even notice an invisible 9 or 10 year old boy moving around, watching and studying all their hustles and wheeling and dealings, but when puberty and high school rambunctiousness came along I knew about a lot of the secrets of adult life and where the action was.
they are cheap whores. I could not care less how they earn their money for fake nails, eye lashes, and extensions.
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