Georgia Hotel Reaches $6M Settlement in Child Sex Trafficking Lawsuit

A hotel in DeKalb County has agreed to pay $6 million to a survivor of child sex trafficking who says staff and owners ignored her abuse while she was trafficked on the property nearly a decade ago.

The case was nearing trial when Tucker Inn Inc. agreed to settle for $6 million. The decision came shortly after attorney Patrick McDonough secured a $40 million jury verdict in a similar case against a Decatur hotel.

The survivor, Dashaundra Hill, was 15 years old when she was trafficked in 2015 by her half-sister at the former Super 8 motel off Lawrenceville Highway, now operating as America’s Best Value Inn.

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