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You Saved Your Own Life—Now We Work to Hold the Motel Accountable The moment you walked to that front desk at the Shore Motor Inn after six days of captivity, you did what the law could not: you saved yourself. What happened in that room along Sunrise Highway was not just a criminal act by an individual; it was a failure of the business that took money for that room. When a person is held against their will, drugged, assaulted, and trafficked for six days, the business providing the venue cannot claim they were unaware. In Suffolk County, we see how “highway motels” can become centers for illicit activity when management fails to monitor their premises. A steady stream of strangers entering a single room over nearly a week is a red flag that no trained staff member should miss. We focus on shifting the weight of this tragedy from you to the corporate entities that profit from looking the other way. The Federal Law That Empowers Survivors: TVPRA Section 1595 While the Suffolk County District Attorney pursues criminal charges, the civil justice system offers a separate path for recovery and accountability. We use a powerful federal tool called the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). “An individual who is a victim of a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action against the perpetrator (or whoever knowingly benefits, or attempts or conspires to benefit, financially or by receiving anything of value from participation in a venture which that…