Sex trafficking survivor testifies in fifth day of Metro Atlanta Red Roof Inn federal civil trial – WSB-TV Channel 2

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Channel 2’s Michael Seiden was there for the fifth day of this historic federal civil trial in Atlanta.

Tiffeny, then 31, from Texas, broke down on the stand as she told jurors about her situation that began in 2010 after a friend offered her a free flight to Atlanta where she planned to pursue a musical career.

But she said that upon her arrival she was taken to an unidentified hotel where she was taken to a room to meet her friend Rebecca, another woman and a pimp.

“Everyone seemed comfortable,” she testified. “Then this woman was taken into the bathroom where I could hear yelling and screaming, as well as head or body banging against the toilet. She came out battered. »

Tiffeny said she spent a week in Atlanta and then returned to Texas until she received a call about another opportunity in the music industry.

Upon arrival, she said she and several other young girls were taken to the Red Roof Inn on North Druid Hills Road in Buckhead where they would stay for days.

“I don’t remember sleeping or eating. We worked 24 hours a day. We had to earn at least $1,000 a day,” she recalls.

When asked what would happen if they didn’t meet their numbers, she replied: “You wouldn’t eat or you would be choked or beaten.” »

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She said she escaped in May 2011.

“It’s beyond me,” she testified. “It’s for those who don’t have a voice.”

Lawyers for the Red Roof Inn have denied the sex trafficking allegations.

The trial is expected to last at least four weeks.

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