A Northeast Philadelphia motel that prosecutors have called the city’s “epicenter of human trafficking” was sued Friday under a recent state law for permitting the pimping of a teenage girl in one of its rooms for two years. “This child was forced into sex slavery, paid to do things with men double, triple, quadruple her age, ” said Nadeem Bezar, with Kline & Specter PC. sometime spent weeks or months living at the motel at 7630 Roosevelt Blvd., was barred from leaving, and was forced to commit sex acts with about 1,000 men “double, triple and quadruple her age.” 
 
 In addition to Roosevelt Inn LLC, the lawsuit names the motel’s owner, UFVS Management Co., of Purchase, N.Y., and the motel’s resident manager, Yagna Patel. “It is a flagrant and blatant example of a motel looking the other way — profiting from it and allowing it to occur.” 
 
 Bezar said his 17-year-old client was a young girl when “she was left to fend for herself.” 
 
 She was transient, sometimes homeless, and “got involved with the wrong crowd and was eventually forced into the sex-trafficking industry,” Bezar said. Dozens Of Coffins Discovered At Construction Site In Old City 
 
 “She is devastated by what happened to her and just trying to piece her life back together,” said Bezar.
– From the outside, Philadelphia's Roosevelt Inn may look any other motel. It's actually the city's "epicenter of human trafficking," according to prosecutors. In a lawsuit filed Friday, a 17-year-old girl details how she was "sold into sexual slavery" at the 107-room motel in 2013, held there for months at a time over two years, and forced to engage in sex acts with 1,000 men "double, triple and quadruple her age," reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. The suit is the first to be brought under a Pennsylvania law allowing sex trafficking victims to seek compensation from establishments that profited from the abuse, reports the Washington Post. However, the motel's resident manager, also named in the suit, says he was unaware anything of the kind was taking place. "I was always in the office," Yagna Patel, 72, tells CBS Philadelphia. "I didn't see anything wrong." The men responsible for forcing the teen to work as a prostitute have already been convicted, but now the teen is seeking $50,000 in damages from the motel for essentially allowing it to happen. "It is a flagrant and blatant example of a motel looking the other way," says a lawyer for the teen, who has escaped the life and is living elsewhere in the city. Law enforcement authorities do not sound surprised about the lawsuit. "Almost every trafficking investigation we have, we see the victim is at Roosevelt Inn," says an assistant DA. (Sex trafficking previously thrived in this sleepy state.)