If This Happened To You at a Budget Motel Off I-40, You Are Not Alone — and You Are Not Powerless
You were held in a room you could not leave. You tried to scream for help. You tore the curtains off the wall so someone would notice. You showed your bruises to anyone who looked. You picked up the room phone and begged the front desk to call the police. And a manager came to your door, told you he would “handle it,” and walked away without ever dialing 911.
If that story is yours, you did everything a human being could do to escape, and a business kept the door closed anyway.
That business is a franchisee of a national motel brand. It collected room rent every single night of your captivity. It turned a documented record of police calls, prior rapes, prior forced prostitution, and a prior missing minor at its own address into more of the same nights on the books — not into a call to law enforcement. When you asked for help, the staff treated your terror as an inconvenience to be managed in-house.
You may have been told that no one will believe you. That you should not file a police report. That the trafficker will retaliate. That hotels “can’t be sued” because the driver is “just a contractor.” That you have already waited too long. None of those things are true. The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act exists to make sure none of those things can stop you from holding the business that profited from your suffering to account. Arkansas law gives you a parallel path. Our firm is built for cases like this, and the consultation is free.
The rest of this page is for you. We will walk you through exactly what the lawsuit against this Motel 6 and its corporate parents can do, what evidence still exists that we can preserve, what the hotel’s defense will look like, what damages the law allows, and exactly what happens in the first hours and days after you call us.
What We Know About the North Little Rock Case From the Filing
The lawsuit filed in Pulaski County on June 10 paints a picture of a property that should never have been allowed to operate the way it did. The plaintiff, identified in the complaint only as Jane Doe, alleges she was trafficked for prostitution from March 2019 to August 2019 at the Motel 6 on West 29th Street in North Little Rock. She was forced into commercial sex by an unnamed trafficker who physically abused her and threatened her child. Over those six months she made repeated, escalating attempts to signal for help.
What makes the case more than a single-victim story is what the complaint alleges about the property itself. The pleading alleges that in 2019 alone, police were called to that address more than 100 times. Five of those calls involved rape, sexual assault, forced prostitution, or a missing minor female at the same Motel 6. The complaint alleges the hotel failed to inspect rooms with heavy foot traffic, failed to implement proper security, failed to alert law enforcement, failed to maintain safe premises — and kept the cash flowing.
The owner of the property at the time of filing told reporters anything that happened was under a previous owner. The front-desk staff hung up the phone when asked about the lawsuit.
We do not represent Jane Doe, and we are not commenting on the merits of her specific claims. We are telling you what the public record says, because her story is the framework in which your story may fit — and because the legal theories she has asserted are the same theories that any survivor of trafficking at any hotel in Arkansas can assert.
The Two Legal Roads: Federal TVPRA and Arkansas Code § 16-118-103
Sex trafficking cases against a hotel run on two parallel tracks, and a strong case uses both.
The federal track is the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, or TVPRA. The civil remedy lives at 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a):
“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 person knew or should have known has engaged in an act in violation of this chapter) in an appropriate district court of the United States and may recover damages and reasonable attorneys fees.”
That single sentence does three things that matter to you. It gives the survivor a civil claim against a business that was not the trafficker but that took the trafficker’s money. It provides damages. And it provides attorney’s fees, which is the reason a law firm like ours can take a case like this on a contingency basis — the hotel, not you, pays the lawyers if we win.
The clock for filing is unusually long. 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) gives a survivor 10 years from the date the cause of action arose, or 10 years after the victim turns 18 if the victim was a minor at the time. Many survivors assume they have already missed their window — that door is almost always still open.
The Arkansas track sits beside it. Arkansas recognizes the same kind of claim under Arkansas Code § 16-118-103, which gives trafficking victims a civil cause of action for actual damages, punitive damages, and attorney’s fees. Arkansas’s broader personal-injury statute of limitations is generally three years, but the TVPRA’s 10-year federal look-back period often governs the federal claim, and Arkansas courts have allowed trafficking claims to proceed where the discovery rule applies — meaning the clock can start when you first connected the harm to the source, not when the harm occurred.
The combination matters in two practical ways. First, you do not have to choose — the federal and state claims can be brought together in the same case, with each one strengthening the other. Second, if the defendant tries to remove the case to federal court under the TVPRA, Arkansas-law claims can ride along and preserve your access to a Pulaski County state-court jury drawn from your own community.
Who Can Be Held Responsible: The Operating Company and the Brand on the Sign
The North Little Rock property is operated by Stone Hospitality Group, Inc., the named franchisee defendant. The brand — the “Motel 6” name on the building, the reservation system, the loyalty program, the website where you booked — belongs to G6 Hospitality LLC, which is the franchisor.
That distinction is the entire fight.
In federal civil-trafficking litigation across the country, courts have drawn the line sharply between the operator that runs the front desk and the brand that licenses the flag. The Eleventh Circuit’s 2021 decision in Doe #1 v. Red Roof Inns, Inc., 21 F.4th 714, dismissed the franchisor defendants on the ground that simply owning the brand and collecting a royalty was not, by itself, “participation in a venture.” We cite that case so you understand what we are up against — and so you understand that the franchisor door is closed only when the survivor cannot show the brand exercised real control.
Here is the other side of that coin, and the more useful one. In M.A. v. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc., a federal judge in Ohio denied summary judgment against hotel operator defendants in September 2025, holding that a hotel that rents rooms while ignoring red flags can satisfy both the knowing benefit and participation in a venture elements of the TVPA. And in A.G. v. Northbrook Industries, the Eleventh Circuit in March 2026 vacated summary judgment for a hotel operator, holding that “ordinary hotel room rentals alone do not establish liability” — but “active support or facilitation of the trafficking operation” does. The North Little Rock case filed in June 2024-style litigation walks exactly that line.
What does that mean for you? It means a case against the local operator — the entity whose employees saw you, heard you, and refused to act — is the spine of the case. And it means the brand on the sign is not automatically off the hook; it is on the hook only if we can show that its brand standards, its reservation system, its training (or lack of it), and its operational control over the property made it more than a landlord collecting a check.
For a property that allegedly fielded 100+ police calls in one year and had five documented reports of rape, sexual assault, forced prostitution, and a missing minor, the case for constructive knowledge — that the brand “knew or should have known” — is unusually strong.
The Pattern That Has to Be Proved: 100 Calls, 5 Reports, One Missing Minor
If you read the Pulaski County complaint carefully, you see the architecture of a liability case built on foreseeability and notice. The complaint does not just describe one woman’s abuse; it describes a property whose own record showed the danger long before she ever walked through the lobby.
“Over the course of those six months, hotel staff fielded more than 100 police calls in 2019, with five reports involving rape, sexual assault, forced prostitution, and a missing minor female at the same Motel 6.”
That paragraph does legal work. It establishes that the hotel cannot credibly claim Jane Doe’s abuse was a one-off surprise — the hotel’s own address generated a documented pattern of sexual violence. It establishes that the staff who allegedly ignored her cries had heard, seen, and responded to the same kinds of cries before. It establishes the foundation for negligent security under Arkansas common law, which requires showing the dangerous condition was foreseeable to the property owner. And it gives the jury a way to see Jane Doe not as a stranger who wandered into a one-time tragedy but as the latest name on a list the hotel kept ignoring.
The complaint also alleges what the manager did when Jane Doe finally called the front desk and asked for police to be summoned. The manager allegedly came to her room, told her he would “handle it,” and the police were never called. That single exchange, if proved, is one of the strongest pieces of evidence a trafficking case can carry — a corporate agent, on notice, choosing personal management over the 911 call. We use that kind of detail the way a prosecutor uses a recorded confession: it does not just prove the injury, it proves the company’s choice.
The Evidence That Disappears on a Timer — and How We Freeze It
In every hotel-trafficking case the single most decisive thing our firm does in the first week is freeze the records that will otherwise be erased. Hotel evidence has an expiration date. If you wait, the proof goes away.
The records that decide a case like this are largely electronic, held by the operator and by the brand, and they live on rolling retention cycles that have nothing to do with your case. They include:
CCTV surveillance footage. There is no federal statute requiring a hotel to keep CCTV for any set period of time. Industry practice is to overwrite on a rolling loop — commonly 30 days, sometimes shorter. The hallway footage that shows the trafficker walking past the desk, the lobby footage that shows the same man checking in with different girls, the parking-lot footage that shows the missing-minor report — that video is gone within weeks unless we order it preserved.
Property-management-system (PMS) records. Every reservation, every key-card swipe, every room charge, every housekeeping visit, every “do not disturb” or service-refusal note. The cash receipts and the credit-card receipts. The pattern of who stayed in what room and how often. PMS data is the spine of a “knew or should have known” case — it is what turns “we had no idea” into “you had every record.” Retention is set by chain policy and state record/tax law, not by a uniform federal rule, and can be short.
Police call-for-service and incident history. Every 911 call, every police report, every CAD log tied to that address. We pull the history through Arkansas public-records law. Retention varies by agency but is often subject to a multi-year archive cycle.
Housekeeping and maintenance logs. Service-refusal notes, broken-lock work orders, escort requests. These are the quiet, daily records that prove what staff actually saw.
Internal employee records. The front-desk clerk who allegedly hung up the phone and the manager who allegedly said he would “handle it” — their training files, their personnel files, their disciplinary history. The hotel controls these, and they can be lost to routine turnover.
The preservation strategy is the same in every case we accept. The same week we are retained, we send a litigation-hold letter to the operator, to G6 Hospitality as franchisor, and (where applicable) to any third-party data vendor — naming each category of record specifically and demanding preservation. The letter does two jobs at once: it converts an automatic erase into spoliation if the hotel lets the records die after that letter, and it gives a jury grounds to draw an adverse inference — that the missing record was as bad as the survivor says it was.
We also move quickly to identify and interview the housekeeping and front-desk staff who worked the relevant shifts. Their memories fade; their contact information changes when they leave. A signed statement from a former employee who confirms a pattern of cash-by-the-hour stays, refused housekeeping, and management indifference can be the most powerful piece of evidence in the case.
What You Can Recover: Damages in a TVPRA / Arkansas Trafficking Case
The damages in these cases are not a single check for a single thing. They are a layered recovery designed to make the survivor whole across the rest of her life, with an additional layer meant to punish the company that facilitated the abuse.
Economic damages are the recoverable money losses: medical care for the injuries you sustained and the ongoing mental-health treatment you will need, lost wages during and after the trafficking, lost earning capacity over a working lifetime, and the value of the household services you would have provided but for your captivity.
Non-economic damages are the human losses no receipt measures: the physical pain, the emotional anguish, the permanent psychological injury, the loss of enjoyment of life, the loss of consortium — the steady, lasting damage to who you are and who you were going to be.
Punitive damages are the punishment layer, reserved by Arkansas law and by 18 U.S.C. § 1595 for conduct the jury finds especially egregious. A property that allegedly fielded 100+ police calls, ignored five prior reports of sexual violence, and then refused a survivor’s direct plea for police — that conduct is exactly the kind juries punish. Punitive damages are designed to make the cost of doing business this way higher than the cost of stopping it.
The published lifetime cost of rape — the cost government researchers attach to a single survivor across her life — has been put at $122,461 per victim in CDC research published in 2017, before inflation adjustment. That number only counts the things that fit on an invoice: therapy, medical care, lost productivity. It does not begin to measure the nightmares, the ruined relationships, the lost years of education, the way a life reroutes after captivity. It is a floor, not a ceiling. A jury in Pulaski County can award substantially more, and Arkansas law allows punitive damages on top.
We build damages in a case like this with a life-care plan developed by a qualified expert — a document that prices out year by year the therapy, the medication, the medical monitoring, and the case-management services a survivor of this level of trauma will need for the rest of her life. We layer on a forensic economist who projects lost earnings across the working lifetime she should have had. We present both to the jury in plain language, anchored to specific numbers tied to specific evidence. The defense will try to shrink the picture. Our job is to make sure the picture is the real one.
The Defense Will Sound Like This — and Why It Should Not Work
You should know in advance what the hotel’s lawyers will say. Most of it is template.
“We didn’t know.” The complaint in the Pulaski County case already answers this. A property with 100+ police calls in a year and five prior reports of sexual violence is, by any reasonable definition, on notice. The brand-standard training manuals for every major hotel chain include a checklist of trafficking red flags. If staff were trained to see it and did not, that is not ignorance — that is the failure the TVPA was written to punish.
“The trafficker was a third party.” The TVPA and Arkansas law both reach businesses that knowingly benefit from a trafficking venture. That phrase does not require the hotel to have been the mastermind. It requires only that the hotel kept taking the room money after the red flags piled up at its own front desk.
“The franchisor isn’t responsible.” The brand’s defense will be a more sophisticated version of the same move: we just license the name, we don’t run the hotel. As we noted above, federal appellate law has drawn this line in some cases and refused to draw it in others. The franchisor does not escape automatically — it escapes only if we cannot show that the brand exercised real operational control over the property. A property’s training, reservation system, standards manual, and quality-inspection regime are the kind of evidence that pierces the franchisor shield.
“You were not the perfect victim.” Defense lawyers in trafficking cases still sometimes reach for the old tropes: you didn’t fight back hard enough, you didn’t call police sooner, you didn’t leave when you could. The medical literature has answers to each. The phenomenon of tonic immobility — the involuntary, brainstem-mediated paralysis most rape victims experience — is documented in clinical studies of nearly 300 survivors at a Stockholm emergency clinic, where the majority reported significant tonic immobility and roughly half reported extreme tonic immobility. The survivors who froze were not consenting. They were the ones the trauma hit hardest, and they went on to suffer PTSD at substantially higher rates than survivors who did not freeze.
“Your memories are inconsistent.” A survivor who remembers the attacker’s voice with brutal clarity but cannot place the day of the week is not lying. The neurobiology of trauma fragments recall in specific, predictable ways. We work with treating clinicians and forensic evaluators who can explain the science to a jury.
“The settlement check should be small.” After the discovery fight, when the records are in evidence and the staff have testified, the defense’s tone changes. This is why the work we do in the first 90 days — preserving the records, locking in the witnesses, building the damages model — matters so much.
What Happens in the First 72 Hours After You Call
If you call Attorney911 at 1-888-ATTY-911, the call is free and confidential. It is not recorded for the hotel. It is not a commitment to file a lawsuit. It is the first conversation about whether the law gives you a path and whether we are the right firm to walk it with you.
Here is what the first 72 hours look like when we take a case like this.
Hour one. We listen. We take your account in your own words. We do not push you to relive detail you are not ready to give. We explain the TVPA and Arkansas-law theories in plain language and answer your questions about timing, cost, and what happens next.
Same day. We send preservation-of-evidence letters to the motel operator, to G6 Hospitality, and to any third-party data vendor. The letters name CCTV, PMS/key-card logs, guest folios, housekeeping logs, employee files, training records, and incident reports specifically. They put every relevant record on legal hold from that moment forward.
Same week. We request the public-records history of police calls, CAD logs, and incident reports at the property address. We identify the responding law-enforcement agencies (typically the North Little Rock Police Department and Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office for this corridor) and file the records requests.
Same month. We retain a forensic economist and a life-care planner to begin building the damages model — therapy and medical costs across a working lifetime, lost earning capacity, household services. We retain a human-trafficking forensic specialist who can explain to a jury why survivors behave the way they do and how the trafficking operation worked.
First 60–90 days. We file the complaint. Under Arkansas law, the venue for a case like this is the county where the conduct occurred — Pulaski County. We plead the federal TVPA claim, the Arkansas § 16-118-103 claim, and the common-law negligent-security claim. We name the right corporate defendants. We do not let the brand sit on the sideline by default — we plead franchisor control as a live issue from day one.
The work in the first three months is what makes the next two years possible. Records preserved now are evidence at trial. Witnesses identified now are witnesses we can call. Damages documented now are damages we can prove.
The Defendants Will Try to Remove the Case to Federal Court — That Is Normal and We Handle It
A TVPA claim can be filed in federal court because federal-question jurisdiction exists. The hotel’s lawyers will often remove the case from Pulaski County state court to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas shortly after the complaint is filed. Removal is not a defeat — it is a tactical move. In federal court the case proceeds under the federal rules of civil procedure, which include robust discovery. In some cases removal is favorable to the survivor; in others we can move to remand the state-law claims back to state court.
You do not need to choose a forum. We evaluate the choice strategically — sometimes state court with a Pulaski County jury is the better venue; sometimes federal court with its discovery tools is. The choice is a case-management decision, not an ideological one.
Statutes of Limitations — The Real Numbers, in Plain English
You have more time than you think.
Federal TVPA. 18 U.S.C. § 1595(c) gives a survivor 10 years from the cause of action, or 10 years after turning 18 if the victim was a minor at the time. Most adult survivors have a full decade from the date they escaped; most child survivors have until roughly their 28th birthday.
Arkansas personal injury. Arkansas’s statute of limitations for personal injury is generally three years from the date of injury. Arkansas Code § 16-118-103 provides a parallel trafficking cause of action, and Arkansas courts apply the discovery rule — the clock can start when you first reasonably discovered both the injury and its cause, not when the injury occurred.
Why the federal clock matters most. In a case like this the federal TVPA claim will usually carry the longest, most survivor-friendly clock. We file the federal claim first and let the Arkansas claim ride alongside it. If you have been sitting with this for two years, you are still well within both windows. If you have been sitting with this for five or six years, you may still be squarely inside the federal TVPA window. Do not assume you are too late. Call us and let us check.
“An individual who is a victim of a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action against the perpetrator (or whoever knowingly benefits… from participation in a venture which that person knew or should have known has engaged in an act in violation of this chapter)… and may recover damages and reasonable attorneys fees.”
— 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a) (Trafficking Victims Protection Act)
How Our Firm Handles These Cases
Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — has spent more than two decades in courtrooms handling catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases against corporate defendants who would rather fight than fix. We do not handle every kind of case; we handle the kind where a person was seriously hurt by a company that should have known better.
Ralph Manginello is our managing partner. He has been licensed in Texas since November 1998 and has practiced for more than 27 years, including in federal court. Before law school he was a journalist — and that training shows in how we try cases. We put the proof in front of the jury in a way they can see it, not buried in legal jargon. Ralph is rated “Excellent” on Avvo, is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the Million Dollar Trial Lawyers Association, and has spent his career on the side of people who got hurt.
Lupe Peña is our associate attorney and the firm’s former-insurance-defense insider. Lupe spent years on the other side of the table, in the rooms where insurance carriers and their defense lawyers value claims, set reserves, and decide how long to delay. He knows the playbook — and he now uses that playbook for injured people, not against them. Lupe is fluent in Spanish — every consultation, every document, every phone call can happen fully in Spanish. We say that with pride because it matters.
Our fee is contingency. No fee unless we win. We do not get paid unless you do. The TVPA and Arkansas § 16-118-103 both provide for the recovery of attorney’s fees from the defendant if we prevail, which is what makes a case like this financially possible for a survivor who has nothing left.
You can read more about how our firm handles premises liability and negligent-security cases on our practice areas page, or about how we approach traumatic-brain-injury and PTSD claims — the medical proof that anchors the damages side of a trafficking case — on our brain-injuries practice page. If you want to know who will actually be in the room with you, the answer is on our Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña profile pages.
Frequently Asked Questions
I was trafficked at a budget motel years ago. Am I too late to sue?
Probably not. The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act gives survivors 10 years from the date the cause of action arose, or 10 years after turning 18 if you were a minor. Arkansas provides a separate trafficking claim under Ark. Code § 16-118-103, and Arkansas’s general three-year personal-injury clock can run from the date you reasonably discovered the harm and its cause. The exact answer depends on when the trafficking occurred and when you learned what happened to you. Call us — we will check your specific dates for free.
Can I sue the motel if I never called the police?
Yes. You do not need a police report to sue a hotel for profiting from your trafficking. A police report strengthens a case, but a civil TVPA claim stands on the hotel’s conduct and your damages, not on a criminal conviction. Many survivors do not report for years — sometimes because of the trafficker’s threats, sometimes because of fear, sometimes because they did not yet have the words for what happened to them. The law is built to recognize that.
Can I sue the national brand on the sign, or only the local motel?
Both, depending on what we can prove. The brand is not automatically off the hook — and a property with a documented pattern of police calls and prior sexual-violence reports is precisely the case where brand-level responsibility is on the table. We sue the operator first because the operator is the entity whose staff saw you. We name the franchisor because brand standards, reservation systems, and operational control can pierce the franchisor shield.
What if I went back to the trafficker, or went back to the motel, or did not leave when I could?
None of that ends your case. Tonic immobility is a documented involuntary response — the brain’s freeze reaction to a threat the body cannot escape. Clinicians have studied it in hundreds of survivors and found that most freeze during the assault and that those who froze are the ones most likely to develop PTSD afterward. Going back to the trafficker is one of the most common features of trafficking — it is a function of coercion, control, and fear, not of consent. The law does not punish a survivor for not being able to escape.
Will I have to testify in court?
Many trafficking cases resolve before trial. The defense often settles when the records we have preserved, the witnesses we have lined up, and the damages we have documented make the risk of trial too high. If a case does go to trial, your testimony will be central — and we will spend the months before trial preparing you for every question, every exhibit, and every moment on the stand. You will not walk into a courtroom unprepared.
How long will my case take?
It depends on how hard the defense fights. Some TVPA cases settle within 12 to 24 months after filing. Others take three to five years when the brand removes to federal court and the franchisor fights every discovery order. We will give you a realistic timeline at intake and update it as the case progresses. The federal TVPA clock gives us room to do this carefully rather than rush.
How much will my case be worth?
We do not promise dollar figures at intake — that would be malpractice. What we can tell you is the structure: economic damages (medical, lost wages, lost earning capacity, household services), non-economic damages (pain, suffering, emotional harm, loss of consortium), and punitive damages when the conduct warrants it. The published lifetime cost of rape — a CDC figure widely used in trafficking cases — has been put at more than $122,000 per survivor for the categories that fit on an invoice. A jury in Pulaski County can award substantially more, particularly when punitive damages are added on top. Our life-care planner and forensic economist will build the actual number from your actual damages.
Is there money to collect from the hotel?
There can be. Major motel chains carry substantial commercial general-liability insurance and excess coverage far above the federal floor. The legal question is which policies cover trafficking claims — a fight the carriers sometimes resist with “assault and battery” exclusions — and how much of the chain’s coverage is reachable. We pursue the operating company, the brand, and every reachable insurance tower. The shell structure that lets a brand claim it is “just a licensor” does not insulate the insurance money that backs the operation.
What about the trafficker themselves?
The trafficker is the primary tortfeasor and the principal defendant in a criminal case. In your civil case we name the trafficker alongside the hotel and the brand. The hotel’s defense will often try to point all blame at the trafficker. Our response is that the trafficker’s conduct was foreseeable to a hotel that allegedly received 100+ police calls and five prior reports of sexual violence — and that the hotel’s continued collection of room rent made the entire venture possible.
Will my identity be protected?
Yes. The Pulaski County complaint identifies the survivor as Jane Doe, and federal TVPA practice routinely proceeds under pseudonyms and with sealed filings to protect survivors from retaliation and re-traumatization. We will work with the court to ensure your privacy is preserved at every stage.
What does it cost me to start?
Nothing. The consultation is free. We work on contingency — no fee unless we win. The TVPA and Arkansas § 16-118-103 both provide for the recovery of attorney’s fees from the defendant if we prevail, which is what makes this kind of case possible for a survivor who has been through financial devastation. You pay nothing up front, and we advance the costs of the case.
What if I am not in Arkansas but the trafficking happened in Arkansas?
We can still help. The case will be filed in Arkansas — in Pulaski County, where the conduct occurred. We work with local Arkansas counsel under pro hac vice admission as needed. You do not have to live in Arkansas to bring a case for what happened to you in Arkansas.
What if I was an adult at the time, not a child?
The TVPA and Arkansas trafficking law both protect adult survivors. The federal 10-year clock runs from the date of the conduct. If you are still inside that window — and most survivors who reach us are — we can help.
What if the trafficker was a romantic partner, not a stranger?
It does not matter. The TVPA’s protection is for victims of forced commercial sex, regardless of how the trafficker first gained power over the survivor. Many trafficking cases arise from intimate-partner dynamics that escalate into commercial exploitation. The hotel’s duty does not change.
I am not sure I can prove it. Should I still call?
Yes. Proving a trafficking case is what we do. We are not the people who decide whether your story is “good enough.” The legal system, with the right lawyers, is. The strongest cases are built from the records we preserve, the witnesses we line up, the medical evidence we document, and the damages we calculate. Bring us what you have and we will tell you honestly what we can build.
Will I have to tell my family?
That is your choice, and we will respect it. Many survivors choose not to tell family until the case resolves. We will work with you to manage communications and protect your privacy. We will not contact anyone in your life without your permission.
If You Are Ready to Talk, We Are Ready to Listen
You do not have to be sure. You do not have to have decided to file a lawsuit. You do not have to know whether what happened to you has a legal name. You only have to call.
The number is 1-888-ATTY-911. The consultation is free. The call is confidential. The conversation is with people who do this work and who will not judge you or pressure you. If we are the right firm to walk this road with you, we will tell you. If we are not, we will tell you that too.
What you can be sure of: the hotel that allegedly kept the door closed did so because it had decided your terror was cheaper than a 911 call. The law was written to make that calculation wrong. The first move toward making it wrong starts with one call.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. This page is legal information, not legal advice for your specific situation; contacting our firm is free and confidential. Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — handles premises-liability, negligent-security, and trafficking cases against hotel and commercial defendants. We work on contingency: no fee unless we win. We serve English- and Spanish-speaking clients. Hablamos Español.
If you want to start by telling us what happened, contact our intake team. If you want to know who would be in the room with you, read about Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña. If you want to understand how we approach cases like this across our practice, our practice areas page and our work on brain injuries and wrongful death are the right starting points. The first call is free. The road is long. We will walk it with you. 1-888-ATTY-911.