ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Armani Johnson has been through a lot.

In 2013, she along with her friend were just 14 years old when she said they were sold for sex out of a Stockbridge hotel over the course of several days.

“I was manipulated. I was looking for love in all the wrong places, and at that moment I felt like that was what love was,” said Johnson.

“A lot of people turned a blind eye on me. A lot of people turned a blind eye on my friend,” she said.

Johnson’s attorney Patrick McDonough, with the Andersen, Tate and Carr law firm, recently won a $40 million jury verdict in a similar case.

Now, he’s helped Johnson and her friend reach a $5 million settlement, to come from the operator at Days Inn by Wyndham.

“We believe the front desk person was working with the traffic

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