Survivors of sex trafficking are suing major hotel chains, alleging hotels ignore red flags of abuse to profit.
More than 1,000 survivors of sex trafficking across the country want to band together in one federal courthouse in Columbus to, accusing them of allowing the exploitation to occur under their roofs.
Columbus attorney Steven Babin, who filed many of those lawsuits, said he represents more than 1,000 survivors of sex trafficking across all 50 states who were waiting for the judge to give them the green light to file here. "Defendant hotels want to isolate survivors of trafficking in courts where they may be the first human trafficking survivors to bring a case against hotels," Babin previously countered.
In the lawsuits, Babin has argued hotel staff at budget and luxury brands have ignored the obvious signs of and solutions to human trafficking"out of an unfettered fealty to their profit margins and a corresponding complete disregard for the value of human life." The hotel companies named in the lawsuits include Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the largest hotel chain in the U.S., which also operates the brands Super 8, Days Inn, La Quinta and more; Red Roof Inn, whose corporate headquarters are in New Albany; G6 Hospitality, which operates Motel 6; Choice Hotels International, which operates Comfort Inn, Quality Inn and others; and InterContinental Hotels Group, which operates Holiday Inn and others.
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