A 27-year-old man from Gujarat, India, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a United States court after being found guilty of physically abusing a minor girl and involvement in human trafficking.

The accused, Kavankumar Patel, was employed at a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, where the crimes took place.

Interestingly, the case did not surface through a trafficking complaint but through a routine theft report filed at the hotel in January 2025. When Omaha police arrived to investigate the theft, they stumbled upon something far more disturbing.

A joint operation by the US Homeland Security Task Force and local law enforcement led to a raid on the hotel, resulting in the rescue of two minor girls, aged 15 and 16, who had been brought in from other states by traffickers.

Investigators revealed that Falguni Choudhary, the wife of Gujarati hotelier Ketan alias Ken Choudhary, allegedly used hidden cameras to watch live footage of trafficked underaged girls being sexually exploited on her properties, an hotel employee even testified that falguni would watch the footage very casually as one watches a soap opera.

The traffickers kept the girls under constant threat, warning them they would be thrown out of the hotel if they did not comply with staff demands. In return, hotel employees provided the traffickers with rooms at discounted rates, with three staff members confirmed to have paid traffickers directly for access to the minors.

Patel personally admitted in court that he had stolen cash from the hotel's drawer and handed it to traffickers in exchange for abusing a minor. Staff then allegedly sheltered the traffickers and victims on the property for days, keeping them hidden from authorities.