Philadelphia: A 17 year old girl filed a complaint against Philadelphia motel owners, claiming they provided rooms to human traffickers who forced her into having underage sex with over 1,000 men.
The girl claims that the Roosevelt Inn in the north east of the city regularly provided rooms to the men, who would force girls into having sex with men up to four times their age.
The teenager claims that between 2013 and 2015 she was enslaved and forced into performing sex acts at the Roosevelt Inn.
It is alleged that motel manager Yagna Patel, 72, knew what was happening at the property, although he denies the claims.
He told the Inquirer he had “no knowledge” of the teenage girl in the lawsuit: “We just rent the room and that’s all we can do,” he said.