ICYMI: The owners of a Days Inn in Northeast Philly must pay $24M to underage victims of sex trafficking after the hotel did nothing to stop the crimes.
The owners of a Northeast Philadelphia hotel will need to pay $24 million to underage victims of sex trafficking that the hotel permitted.
“The victimization of these young girls should not be tolerated. The criminal process has punished the traffickers," said attorney Nadeem Bezar of Kline & Specter, PC, the law firm that reached the settlement on behalf of the victims."It’s now time to hold the hotel owners accountable. Plain and simple, this type of activity should not be allowed to go on anywhere."
Most of the victims had previously been in the child welfare system and in foster care, the law firm said, and some of the girls were repeatedly beaten by the traffickers.
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