Choice Hotels International Inc. and R&M Real Estate Co. Inc. must continue to face allegations they profited from the sex trafficking of a minor at a Florida hotel, a federal judge said Monday.
A plaintiff identified as S.Y. alleges she was trafficked, sexually exploited, abused, and drugged at a Comfort Inn and Executive Suites in Naples, Fla., between 2013 and 2016. That hotel is owned by R&M, a franchisee of Choice Hotels, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
S.Y. sufficiently alleged violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, the ...
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