Pennsylvania Personal Injury

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…

$17.5M Settlement for Three Women Trafficked as Minors at Northeast Philadelphia Hotels — Attorney911 Holds Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and the Owners of Motel 6, Days Inn, and North American Motor Inn Accountable for Failing to Stop Ongoing Criminal Exploitation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Police Call Logs and Guest Records Before They Disappear, Trafficking Victims Protection Act and Pennsylvania’s Premises Liability Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

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…