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by Amanda Kloer · June 14, 2011
Recently, San Diego native Tim Rosner launched a campaign on Change.org asking Wyndham Hotels to prevent child sex trafficking at their properties, after a sex trafficking ring selling girls as young as 14 was discovered in a Wyndham hotel in California. Now, another sex trafficking ring has been busted using Wyndham properties near Washington, DC. Will this latest scandal finally inspire the company finally do the right thing? Virginia resident and MS-13 gang member Alonso Bruno Cornejo Ormeno was recently indicted for trafficking girls for sex at a Super 8 hotel -- a Wyndham property -- in Manassas, Virginia. At least one of the girls was 15 when she was sold, and Ormeno advertised her as a "high school girl" and "fresh out of the box." According to the indictment, Ormeno rented a room at the Super 8 where he sold sex acts with a number of girls and women for $50 each. He told an informant his business was booming, and his cell phone was ringing off the hook. Six or seven clients a day would stream in and out of the room, but no one at the hotel reported it.
This is the second recent case of gangs using a Wyndham hotel to run child sex trafficking rings. Two Wyndham hotels near San Diego were similarly used by the Crips gang, and at one property employees even helped facilitate the child sex trafficking. Could this be the beginning of a pattern of child sex trafficking rings being run from Wyndham properties?
The campaign Rosner launched, and which over 500 people have supported, asks the Wyndham Hotel Group to intervene and prevent child sex trafficking at their hotels by signing the ECPAT Code of Conduct to Prevent Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism. Signing the campaign is an incredibly easy, effective thing Wyndham can do to stop child sex trafficking at their hotels -- Carlson Companies and Hilton Worldwide have already signed it. Among other things, The Code would help provide hotel staff with the training to recognize child sex trafficking and intervene to prevent it.
So far, however, Wyndham has yet to respond. How many more stories of gangs running child sex trafficking rings out of their hotels will have to hit the media before they are willing to take action?
Photo credit: Neubie
Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
This is the second recent case of gangs using a Wyndham hotel to run child sex trafficking rings. Two Wyndham hotels near San Diego were similarly used by the Crips gang, and at one property employees even helped facilitate the child sex trafficking. Could this be the beginning of a pattern of child sex trafficking rings being run from Wyndham properties?
The campaign Rosner launched, and which over 500 people have supported, asks the Wyndham Hotel Group to intervene and prevent child sex trafficking at their hotels by signing the ECPAT Code of Conduct to Prevent Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism. Signing the campaign is an incredibly easy, effective thing Wyndham can do to stop child sex trafficking at their hotels -- Carlson Companies and Hilton Worldwide have already signed it. Among other things, The Code would help provide hotel staff with the training to recognize child sex trafficking and intervene to prevent it.
So far, however, Wyndham has yet to respond. How many more stories of gangs running child sex trafficking rings out of their hotels will have to hit the media before they are willing to take action?
Photo credit: Neubie
Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic 
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