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Three Philadelphia Hotels, Three Women Trafficked as Minors, and the Federal Law That Made the Hotel Industry Pay We write this page for the survivor reading it at 2 a.m., the mother who has just found out what happened in the room she paid for, and the advocate who knows the truth has been sitting in a hotel ledger for years. This page is about what the law actually says when a national hotel chain profits from a room where a child is sold, and what we do about it. Between May 2015 and January 2017, three women, all minors at the time, were sex-trafficked at three hotels along Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia: the Motel 6, the Days Inn, and the North American Motor Inn. The hotels collected room revenue from the men who paid to sexually abuse those young women. Philadelphia police visited these properties again and again. The women who survived filed suit under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and on the eve of trial, the hotels agreed to pay $17.5 million. The companies did not admit liability. The families did not need them to. The federal civil-remedy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1595, lets a survivor reach…