Raped at a Holiday Inn in Montego Bay, Jamaica
May 17, 2018
In this week’s travel law article we examine the case of Robin Hutchings v. InterContinental Hotels Group, PLC. & SC Hotels and Resorts (Jamaica) d/b/a Holiday Inn Resort Montego Bay, Cause No. 1:17-CV-791 RLM-DLP (S.D. Ind. 2018) wherein the plaintiff claimed that the defendants “were negligent in failing to exercise reasonable care to protect her safety while she was a guest at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica where she was allegedly assaulted and raped…Ms. Hutchings says in her complaint that while she and her now-husband…were guests at the Holiday Inn in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she was viciously raped at the Holiday Inn and tortured by three men who entered the women’s restroom and jumped into the locked stall she was using. Ms. Hutchings alleges that hotel staff and security didn’t respond to her cries and that the attack didn’t end until Mr. Hutchings heard her screaming, entered th
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