Sex trafficking survivor sues Mass. hotels she says turned a blind eye

To Audra Doody , the red flags were abundantly clear: the stream of male callers, the bruises, the large volume of discarded condoms, and the hotel bills paid in cash.

But even amid increasingly obvious signs of sex trafficking, Doody alleges, staff at several Massachusetts hotels continued to turn a blind eye to her abuse, leaving her to suffer in silence. Now, the survivor is suing a handful of major hotel chains in federal court, accusing them of failing to help curb the trafficking happening right under their noses.

“They are hosting most of it, whether or not they know what’s happening,” said Doody, co-executive director of Worcester-based nonprofit Safe Exit Initiative .

“They profit so much off of this industry that they should be held accountable a little bit and just have b