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Jun 22, 2026

2018 California Hotel Sexual Assault & Rape Allegations Against Public Official — Attorney911 Pursues Civil Claims Under AB 2777 Revival Window for Survivors of Drugging, Choking & Violent Assault, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles High-Profile Cases, We Preserve Electronic Communications & Hotel Logs Before They Are Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Sexual Violence — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Person Reading This Page Is Not Here for a Headline You did not type “California hotel sexual assault lawyer” because you saw a news chyron. You typed it because something happened to you — or to someone you love — in a room you were told was safe. Maybe the door had a keycard and a deadbolt. Maybe the front desk smiled. Maybe you knew the person, or maybe you didn’t. Maybe the police came, or maybe they didn’t, or maybe you didn’t call yet because your body is still trying to catch up to what your mind already knows. We are not going to make you read another thinkpiece. We are going to walk you, in plain language, through what California law actually lets you do — today, this year, and for as long as the statute of limitations will hold the door open for you. We will show you who can be sued, what they can be made to pay, what evidence you must protect before it disappears, and what the insurance company’s playbook looks like so you can see it coming. We will tell you when a public allegation against a powerful person helps your civil case, when it doesn’t, and what to do tomorrow morning. If, after reading this, you want to talk to a human — Ralph Manginello or Lupe Peña, not a call center — you call our intake line and we answer. Free. Confidential. 24/7. No fee unless we win. The number…

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Jun 22, 2026

Minor Sex Trafficking & Nearly 1,000 Rapes at Motel 6, Red Roof Inn, and Wyndham Hotels in Los Angeles (and Gardena, San Dimas), California — Attorney911 Holds the Franchisors and Corporate Parents That Profited from the Trafficking, Federal TVPRA Civil Remedy Under 18 U.S.C. § 1595, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Guest Folios, Surveillance Footage, and Employee Records Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Sexual Violence — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Were Trafficked at a Motel in Los Angeles, Gardena, or San Dimas, the Hotel That Took the Room Money Can Be Held Accountable You are reading this because something happened at a Motel 6, a Red Roof Inn, or a Wyndham-affiliated property in Los Angeles County — and the questions that follow are not the kind the internet usually answers well. Was it really trafficking, or something else? Can you sue the hotel, or just the person who hurt you? How long do you have? What will it cost you to ask a lawyer? And the quiet one underneath all of those — is there actually a way to hold a national chain accountable for what happened inside one of its rooms? We built this page to answer those questions, in the order someone in your position actually asks them. We are a trial firm that takes cases like this. We are not a chatbot and we are not a content site — we are Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña, and the law on this is something we have studied, argued, and built cases around. What follows is the full picture, not the short version. What the Federal Case Law Actually Looks Like — The Honest Two-Sided Story The Hardest Case: Doe #1 v. Red Roof Inns, Inc., 21 F.4th 714 (11th Cir. 2021) The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of TVPRA claims against the franchisor defendants (Red Roof Inns, Inc., and RRI West Management). The…

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Jun 22, 2026

Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuits Across 40 States — Attorney911 Holds the National Hotel Chain Accountable for Ignoring Obvious Signs of Forced Commercial Sex Work, Child Trafficking, and Drug-Facilitated Assault in 118 Properties, Including Smyrna/Atlanta, Hilliard/Columbus, and Springfield: Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Survivors, We Preserve Hotel Registries, Surveillance Footage, and Police Call Logs Before They Are Destroyed, TVPRA Violations and Premises Liability Claims for 1,000+ Victims, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Human-Trafficking Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hotel Said It Didn’t Know. Federal Law Says That’s Not the End of the Conversation. If you are reading this page, someone you love — or you yourself — was bought and sold for sex in a hotel room. Maybe it was a Red Roof Inn off an interstate in Ohio. Maybe it was a budget motel in Florida, a roadside inn in Texas, or a place in California where the hallways smelled like smoke and the front desk looked the other way. The trafficker has been caught, or the trafficker is still out there, or the trafficker was never really caught at all. What you have now is a different kind of problem: figuring out whether the building where this happened — the company that rented the room night after night, that trained its staff to spot the warning signs, that took the money — can be held responsible. That answer is yes, and the law that gives it to you is a federal statute most people have never heard of. It is called the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, and the civil-remedy provision inside it — 18 U.S.C. § 1595 — gives a trafficking survivor the right to sue not only the trafficker but also any business that knowingly benefited from the venture. The hotel chain is the business. The room revenue is the benefit. The warning signs the industry trains its staff to spot — cash paying the same room night after night, the parade of…

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Jun 22, 2026

Sex Trafficking Civil Lawsuit Against Red Roof Inn — Attorney911 Holds the National Budget Motel Chain Liable Under the 2008 Trafficking Statute for Knowingly Profiting from Prolonged Rape, Physical Battery, and Psychological Coercion of Minors and Adults at Atlanta’s Smyrna and Buckhead Locations, We Pursue the Corporate Defendants and Franchisees Named in 42 Federal Lawsuits Across 39 States, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve Internal Emails, Guest Folios, and Housekeeping Logs Before They Are Purged, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuits: What Survivors Need to Know About the Federal Law That Holds Hotels Accountable If you are reading this page, something has already gone wrong. Maybe you were trafficked at a Red Roof Inn — in Smyrna, in Buckhead, at a location off an interstate exit somewhere between here and Texas. Maybe the people who ran the rooms have been arrested and the motel is still operating as if nothing happened. Maybe a caseworker, a detective, or a relative handed you a number and said “call a lawyer.” Maybe no one has said that yet, and you found this page because you typed the name of the motel and a word you are not sure you are allowed to type into a search engine. Whatever brought you here, this page is for you. It is not a news article. It is a working map of the federal civil law that lets a survivor of sex trafficking hold a hotel chain accountable — the law Congress wrote, the cases that have tested it, the evidence the defense will try to destroy, the clock you are racing, and the path our firm walks with survivors and their families from the first phone call to the final resolution. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We have spent more than two decades standing beside people who were failed by institutions that…

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Jun 22, 2026

California Hotel Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Marriott International & Wyndham Accountable Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Cases, We Preserve Guest Folios, Surveillance Footage & Staff Training Records Before They Are Deleted, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Severe Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hotel Profits From Your Exploitation: The California Trafficking Case Against Wyndham and Marriott It is two in the morning, and the room key still works. You were brought to this hotel weeks ago. The man who brought you took the room in cash. He registered under his own name. You have no idea what is happening tomorrow, and you are afraid to ask. The front desk has seen you come and go. Housekeeping has been told not to enter. The same credit card has paid for the same room night after night. Somewhere down the corridor, the hotel’s general manager is reviewing occupancy numbers and celebrating a strong month. If you are reading this, you may be that person. You may be a family member who suspects what is happening. Or you may be the survivor now looking at the life that was taken from you and wondering whether anyone can be held answerable. We want to walk with you through what the law actually does, in California, against a hotel chain that took money from the operation that hurt you. The case filed on August 11, 2023 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California against Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International, and related defendants is the latest in a wave of cases built on a single federal statute that exists for exactly this situation. Your path to recovery runs through it. This page is written to walk you through, in plain English,…

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Jun 22, 2026

SeaTac Motel 6 Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds G6 Hospitality Accountable for 8 Years of Exploitation at Three King County Locations — Federal TVPA Claims Against the National Budget-Chain Parent Company, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Trafficking Cases, We Preserve the Guest Registry and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Abuse — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Represent Survivors Trafficked at Motel 6, Studio 6, and Other SeaTac / King County Hotels — Quietly, and From Inside the Federal System That Was Built to Hold These Companies Accountable If you are reading this, something has already happened to you. The rest of this page is about what we can do about it — on a clock that may be shorter than you think, and against a company whose entire business model in this corridor was built to keep the cameras rolling and the cash register open while predators worked their rooms. In April 2024, a federal civil lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma against G6 Hospitality LLC (the corporate parent of Motel 6 and Studio 6), its parent, and third-party technology vendors. The complaint alleges that between 2015 and 2023, survivors — identified in the federal filing as “M.K.” and others — were trafficked repeatedly at three specific Motel 6 properties in SeaTac, Washington. The federal filing describes what we have seen in trafficking cases across the country: rooms rented on a recurring basis by the same trafficker, cash payments, housekeeping waved off for days at a time, a stream of different men through one room, staff who knew the trafficker by name — and a property that kept handing over keys. We bring this case against G6 Hospitality and the companies behind it because the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a), says we can. It is the only…

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Jun 22, 2026

Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Atlanta Victims Fight for Justice Under Federal TVPA—Attorney911 Holds the Budget Hotel Chain Accountable for Knowingly Profiting from Trafficking, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve Hotel Room Logs, Security Footage, and Internal Emails Before They’re Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Atlanta Sex Trafficking Lawyer: Holding Hotels Accountable Under Federal Law When Atlanta Became a Trafficking Corridor You checked in expecting a room for the night. Or you were moved from city to city by someone who told you no one else could help you. Or you are the parent who got a call from Atlanta you cannot stop replaying. The room where it happened may have been a budget motel off I-285 near College Park, a roadside Days Inn near Hartsfield-Jackson, a weekly-rate WoodSpring Suites in Forest Park, a Red Roof near the airport, or an extended-stay on Memorial Drive in unincorporated DeKalb County, just outside the Atlanta city line. The men who used that room paid the hotel. The hotel gave them a key. That transaction - and the hotel’s choice to keep giving a key after the signs were obvious - is what federal law was written to punish. This page is written for the survivor, and for the family member or advocate sitting beside them. It explains, in plain language, the federal civil remedy that lets a trafficking survivor sue the hotel - and, in many cases, the brand on the sign - for knowingly profiting from the abuse. It explains what a Georgia case looks like, what evidence exists, what disappears fastest, and how we work it. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because something happened at a hotel in Atlanta, in Decatur, in College Park, in Forest Park, or anywhere in Fulton or…

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Jun 22, 2026

11 Survivors of Sex Trafficking at Atlanta Red Roof Inn Locations Reach Midtrial Settlement — Attorney911 Holds Hotel Corporate Owners Accountable Under TVPRA and Georgia Premises Liability Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Room Folios, Staff Logs and Prior Police Calls Before They Vanish, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hotel Profits From Trafficking: The Red Roof Atlanta Case and Your Rights Under Georgia Law You are reading this for one of two reasons. Either you are a survivor who is finally putting words to what happened to you in an Atlanta hotel room — years of it, maybe, when every instinct told you something was wrong but no one with power looked at you long enough to see it. Or you are a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend who started asking questions and could not stop, because the answers did not line up with the story the hotel kept telling. If that is you, take a breath. What happened to you was not bad luck, not a “lifestyle,” not something you caused. Under federal and Georgia law, the place that rented the room to the man who hurt you may have a duty to you that runs deeper than the franchisor’s standard “we screen our drivers” boilerplate. And there is a new precedent you need to understand: in the summer of 2024, eleven women who were trafficked at two Red Roof Inn locations in Atlanta settled their civil case against the hotel’s corporate owners in the middle of trial. The terms are confidential. The case is real. And the legal road they walked is open to you. We are a national trial firm that handles civil cases arising from human trafficking in hotels, motels, and short-term rentals across Georgia — including Atlanta, Fulton County, and…

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Jun 22, 2026

Philadelphia Sex Trafficking of Minors at Days Inn Motel — Attorney911 Holds Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Motel Owners Liable Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Cases, We Secure Guest Folios, Security Footage, and Incident Logs Before They Are Destroyed, $24 Million Settlement for Eight Survivors — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Days Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard and the $24 Million Trafficking Settlement: What Philadelphia Survivors Need to Know If you are reading this at 2 a.m., we want you to know one thing first: what happened to you is not your fault, and the law has changed in ways that may matter for you even years later. The case at the Days Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard — where eight women, four of them children when it began, were trafficked over a span of years in rooms rented for days and weeks at a time — produced one of the largest civil trafficking settlements in Pennsylvania history. The motel agreed to pay $24 million. The traffickers and a security guard who took bribes to look the other way went to federal prison. That outcome is not a fluke. It is the result of a federal civil rights statute that exists for exactly this purpose, applied to a corporate defendant that had the resources to pay and the culpability to owe. We represent people who have been trafficked, and people who have been hurt by businesses that profited from their exploitation. This page explains, in plain language, what the Philadelphia case teaches, what federal and Pennsylvania law say, what the motel and its insurers do to fight these cases, what evidence exists and how fast it disappears, and what you can do today if a Days Inn — or any other Philadelphia motel — has something to answer for. What Happened at the…

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Jun 22, 2026

Child Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Against Motel 6, Wyndham & Red Roof Inn Chains—Attorney911 Holds Hotel Corporations Liable for Nearly 1,000 Rapes of 13-Year-Old Jane AB Doe Across Los Angeles, Gardena, Dallas, Austin & Houston Properties, Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How Chains Profit from Trafficking, We Preserve Guest Folios & Staff Logs Before They’re Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Catastrophic Abuse—No Fee Unless We Win, Free 24/7 Consultation, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Are Reading This Page Right Now, You Are Not Alone You are probably not scrolling this at a coffee shop between meetings. You are reading it at night, alone, with a door closed, on a phone or a laptop, after hours of trying to talk yourself out of picking it up. You may have just seen a news story about a young woman — identified in court papers only as Jane AB Doe — who alleges she was held and trafficked at hotels including a Motel 6 just south of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, another Motel 6 in Gardena, a Studio 6 in Dallas, and a Red Roof Inn in Houston, among others, while she was a child. You may be that young woman. You may be the mother, the sister, the aunt, the social worker, or the friend who has been carrying this for someone else. You may be a survivor of something similar at a different hotel, in a different city, years ago, who has never told anyone in writing. Whoever you are and however you got here: this page is for you. Read what helps. Skip what doesn’t. And when you are ready, call us at 1-888-ATTY-911. The consultation is free. We don’t get paid unless we win. What you read below is not a sales pitch. It is the law, the facts of cases like yours, the traps the hotels will set, and the evidence that vanishes if no one moves on it…

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