hotel rape in room, hotel negligence, lack of security

Hotel Rape & Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Hotels due to the nature of its business it suppose to be a refuge for out of town guests. As such hotels owe these paying guests a safe place to stay, not subjecting them being raped, assaulted or even murdered at the hands of a would be trespasser or rapist.

While most hotel chains around the United States do a decent job in providing security and keeping the premises relatively safe, many hotel's security practices are still dangerously lacking. Hotel security must be job one for every hotel. When a hotel is negligent in providing a safe place, the guests become easy targets. Most of these guests are not aware of local criminal activity or previous criminal acts at the particular hotel and it is very unlikely someone at the front desk is going to inform a guest or warn them of such crimes.

Most hotels are often associated with a major chain of hotels throughout the country, as such these hotels should have the resources and personal or in-house security professionals to study local criminal activity, inspect the all aspects of the hotel's security practices, its cameras systems, gates, lighting, hiring practices, background checks of employees and workers, door locks and common areas. If the hotel is not part of a larger hotel chain or doesn't have a security professional or expert, then they may be negligent in not hiring such a professional to make routine property and community assessments of crime that might effect the hotel guests. A security inspection is not something a hotel or motel can deligate to an untrained manager, front desk worker, janitor or maintenance worker.

As stated about routine inspections are needed to keep the hotel safe. With any property, things wear out, break or fail to work and such deficiencies must be addressed and fixed. Criminals know which hotels and motels have security and which ones don't.

Rapes, sexual assaults and violent crimes at hotels are usually preventable, with reasonable and correct security measures in effect at all times.

Some of the negligent security practices of many hotels include:

Lack of working security cameras in designated areas
Lack of hotel staff to properly monitor security cameras
Insufficient hallway and passageways lighting
Inspection of rooms for a hidden spy camera placed by a hotel worker or former guest
Lack of security gates in parking garages
Failure to have digital card keys on all hotel guest rooms and access doors to hotel
Negligent Hiring / Screening of employees
Failure to not install security cards to access upper floors to rooms
Failure to secure common areas and patrol for trespassers
Lack of working emergency panic button or alarms in each room
Broken or malfunctioning gates
Negligent Master Key & Room Key Entrustment
Failure to prevent trespass of local vagrants and trespassers
Failure to Make Premises Safe
Failure to Warn Hotel Guests of Criminal Activity in Area

Negligent Hotel Security Lawsuit

If you or a family member has been sexually assaulted, raped or a family member killed while a guest at a hotel, in an office building, department store or hotel parking garage or surface lot and you believe that the hotel or business owner was negligent in providing a safe place for guests or customers, then call us and let's investigate this matter further for you. The Willis Law Firm is ready to help! Mr. Willis is a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer with more than 38 years of experience.

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