India, May 30 -- An Indian man, identified as 27-year-old Kavankumar Patel, who worked as a staff member at a hotel in Nebraska in United States was sentenced to ten years in jail for paying for sex with a trafficked teen.

Patel and other hotel staff were allegedly involved in sexual acts with two trafficked minors, aged 15 and 16, who had been brought to the AmericInn hotel in Omaha from outside the state "to be sold for commercial sex," the US Attorney's Office for the District of Nebraska said in a statement.

After they were recovered from the hotel, the two minors told authorities that their traffickers had directed them to engage in sexual relations with the hotel staff for cheaper room rates, so that they would not get kicked out....