PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — "Lawyers claim several local hotels helped sex traffickers enslave young girls in what they call a rampant sex slave business. The two men convicted as ringleaders of the human sex trafficking rings are serving lengthy prison sentences and now lawyers are turning their focus on the hotels.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to hold the owners and parent companies of three Philadelphia hotels responsible for what it alleges are human sex trafficking rings, that happened right under their noses.

Two teenage girls were held captive in a sex trafficking ring that lawyers contend was operated out of three Philadelphia hotels — the Roosevelt Inn, Days Inn and North American Motor Inns.

Lawyers describe it as “modern day slavery.” Management at all of the facilities said they had no knowledge of the 40-page document.

Attorneys at Kline and Specter allege in two suits that staff at Roosevelt Inn and Days Inn on Roosevelt Boulevard and North American Motor Inn on City Avenue turned a blind eye to young women walking about the properties in lingerie as a string of men cycled in and out of rooms."

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