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JURY AWARDS ,000 AGAINST HOTEL FOR
SUBJECTING FAMILY TO PORNOGRAPHY
Dateline: October 12, 2007 ... Norwalk, CA
Contact 1: Jarvis & Krieger, PC
Contact 2: Leejanice Toback, Esq.
Contact 3: Scott Jarvis, Esq.
Phone: (562) 597-7070
Fax: (562) 597-7772
E-Mail 1: lee@jarvislawyers.com
E-Mail 2: eliot@jarvislawyers.com
E-Mail 3: Scott@jarvislawyers.com
Web Address: www.jarvislawyers.com
NORWALK, CA - October 12, 2007 - Edwina McCombs, a Tennessee resident,
who was visiting Southern California to vacation with her 8 and 9 year
old daughters, was awarded ,000 today when a jury found Value
Lodge, an Artesia motel, liable for involuntarily subjecting her girls
to hard-core pornographic movies. Ms. McCombs checked into the Value
Lodge where she informed the front desk that she was there with her
two young daughters. When she was in the room, Ms. McCombs went to
take a bath and the children turned on the television to watch a
children´s show. Instead, the children were subjected to hard-core
pornography with close-up images of people engaged in sodomy and
homosexual acts. Leejanice Toback, an attorney for McCombs, stated
that this is probably the first such verdict against a hotel or motel
for showing pornography.
"This shows that hotels cannot ignore the duty of care they owe their
patrons. If hotels don´t have lock-outs that prevent young children
from being involuntarily subjected to pornography, they will be
liable," said Eliot Krieger. The trial lasted two weeks. During the
trial, the plaintiffs presented testimony from hotel expert Alan
Snyder, who commented that in his thirty years experience, he has
never seen a family hotel where some affirmative action was not
necessary in order to access adult material. Although the motel
claimed that there were signs warning the patrons that the adult
channel could be turned off by the front desk, interviews with the
jury indicated that no one believed it. The plainitffs also called
Dr. Michael Perrotti, who extensively tested the children and
described the harm that exposure to pornographic images have on young
children. Dr. Perrotti stated that a child´s mind is like a hard drive
on a computer and the images once implanted, are difficult to remove.
The girl´s parents and attorneys Leejanice Toback and Eliot F. Krieger
are thrilled with the verdict and the message it sends.
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