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You Are Not Alone, and You Have Rights If you were trafficked at the Red Roof Inn on Washington Boulevard in Jessup — or at any motel, hotel, or short-term rental in Howard County — we want you to hear something clearly before anything else in this page: what happened to you was a crime, not a choice. The people who took money from your exploitation can be held civilly answerable, separate from the criminal case the State of Maryland is already pursuing. We represent survivors, not the people who hurt them. The criminal charges that came out of the Howard County Police Department’s investigation — two defendants, Zhongmei Zhang and Li Yu, each facing two counts of human trafficking and two counts of prostitution, after officers responding to a tip on July 17, 2019, found victims inside a room in the 8000 block of Washington Boulevard — opened the door. The civil door is yours, and it does not depend on whether the criminal prosecution ends the way you hope. We can pursue compensation from the people who facilitated the venture, the hotel that took the room money, and anyone else who benefited from what you were forced to…