“It is concerning that their suffering went on for so long with multiple hotel locations turning a blind eye, not only to a woman being openly trafficked for sex, but also to the foreseeable harm to her unborn baby,” said Meagan Verschueren, Counsel at Singleton Schreiber. A Motel 6 location on Calle Joaquin in San Luis Obispo is one of five California properties named in a lawsuit alleging the hotel chain knowingly facilitated and profited from sex trafficking. The lawsuit, filed January 12 by a California woman and her daughter, claims the woman was forced into commercial sex acts from 2018 to 2020, even while she was pregnant, and that the abuse continued across multiple hotel sites.
According to the complaint, the physical violence the woman suffered allegedly caused her daughter to be born under emergency circumstances with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. In addition to the San Luis Obispo property, Motel 6 locations in Modesto, Redding, Turlock, and Manteca are also named. The plaintiffs allege hotel staff ignored obvious trafficking signs and continued renting rooms to the trafficker, choosing profit over intervention. The suit seeks damages under federal anti-trafficking laws, and G6 Hospitality has not yet responded publicly to the allegations.
