Exterior view of facade of the Doubletree Newark Airport hotel by Hilton Hotels in Newark, New Jersey on a sunny day, March 16, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) A terrifying crime wave of rapists allegedly targeting women in hotel rooms is unfolding at well-known hotel chains in the U.S., a new report has found. "I think this has been a longstanding modus operandi.
I think what’s new is that survivors are willing to come forward and that the climate is changing so that perpetrators and systems are being held accountable," Emilee D.
Whitehurst of the Houston Area Women’s Center told the New York Post. The outlet found various cases, most notably in Texas, where criminals managed to get key cards to hotel rooms by allegedly lying to staff.
The criminals then enter the rooms of women and rape or attempt to sexually assault them, according to the New York Post. In one disturbing incident at a Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Gonzales, Texas, a woman allegedly woke up in her hotel room last year to a man with his pants undone. IOWA HOTEL SETTLES WITH WOMAN WHO WAS RAPED INSIDE HER ROOMA Holiday Inn Express and Suites sign. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) "The woman was asleep and she woke up to the man crouched at the foot of her bed with his pants undone and a condom out," a lawyer for the unidentified victim told the outlet. "She was able to scream and get him out of the room, and she immediately called down to the front desk.