A sex-trafficking survivor who was held against her will at two local hotel chains is suing those hotels.
According to Click on Detroit, Tiffany Ellis, the survivor’s lawyer, says the staff at the Ann Arbor Fairfield Inn by Marriott and the Detroit Holiday Inn Express & Suites ignored signs that the survivor was being sex-trafficked.
The victim, who was 17 when she was kidnapped from school, “went to the front desk of the hotel with blood running down her legs, and police weren’t called.” At the Fairfield Inn, Ellis said, "She would stay for days at a time in the hotel in Ann Arbor, not come out of her room, exhibited signs of fear and anxiety, was often skimpily clothed and exhibited signs of bruising on her arms and legs."
The trafficking occurred from 2003 to 2008.
Ellis said that signs of potential sex-trafficking include the victim “looking scared and anxious-ridden, potentially with bruises on their body, or if somebody is controlling another person’s documents.”
Other hotel chains are facing similar lawsuits from sex-trafficking survivors. These include the Red Roof Inn, Intercontinental, Hilton and Hyatt.
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