'Put Profits Over People’: Georgia Hotel Must Pay $40M After Turning a ‘Blind Eye’ While Hundreds of Men Abused 16-Year-Old Girl Over 40 Days

'Put Profits Over People’: Georgia Hotel Must Pay $40M After Turning a ‘Blind Eye’ While Hundreds of Men Abused 16-Year-Old Girl Over 40 Days

A young woman who was fed drugs, beaten and sex trafficked in a metro Atlanta hotel as a 16-year-old has won a $40 million verdict after five years of litigation and a federal trial, during which a jury found the hotel liable for and a participant in the sex crime activity on its premises. United Inn & Suites in Decatur, Georgia, owned by Northbrook Industries, Inc., is the first hotel in Georgia to be found civilly liable by a jury under a fede…