{"id":281646,"date":"2025-10-06T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:05:18","slug":"turn-to-tara-yearlong-investigation-finds-hotels-ignoring-trafficking-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281646\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn to Tara yearlong investigation finds hotels ignoring trafficking law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A yearlong Turn to Tara investigation has found hotels across the tri-state ignoring a law meant to help trafficking victims&#8217; escape.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Thompson was 12 and living in New York City when she was kidnapped and trafficked through hotels in upscale suburban areas, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>She first shared her story in 2018, revisiting the places where she was sold as a child and describing the trauma that still lingers.<\/p>\n<p>Her account helped push lawmakers in Albany to pass a law requiring hotels and motels to post human trafficking hotline signs in every public restroom.<\/p>\n<p>Activists say the discreet posters can be a silent lifeline for people who are trapped or afraid to speak out.<\/p>\n<p>But the Turn to Tara investigation found many hotels are not displaying the signs, leaving survivors without a critical resource.<\/p>\n<p>The full documentary, &#8220;Trafficking in the Tri-State,&#8221; airs next Tuesday and Wednesday on News 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A yearlong Turn to Tara investigation has found hotels across the tri-state ignoring a law meant to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,79180,46817,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-281646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-trafficking","16":"tag-turn-to-tara","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115327135549504808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}