was possibly so unsecured that an intoxicated person may have been able to get in there and possibly have been trapped w/no functioning escape mechanism.

this is a big ol' hotel we're talking about. generally, as a person invited by the hotel or allowed to enter the hotel, i expect the hotel to at least try to keep me away from dangerous locations w/in the hotel that the hotel knows about that i don't expect b/c i'm not up on the inner workings of a big ol' hotel like that. i also expect that since the hotel allowed one or several of its guests to throw a party at the hotel and/or the hotel itself serves alcohol...i expect that a drunk person walking around the hotel is not something strange to the hotel staff/mgmt. this hotel is in Rosemont, IL. that's out there by O'Hare Airport. lots of bars/clubs/casino out that way. ppl go there at night to party. ppl who party out there frequently rent hotel rooms. this is common practice. this hotel should've expected either a hotel guest or someone invited by a guest to be drunk in the hotel. ppl have to walk the hallways in the hotel to get to their rooms. they may be drunk. they use the elevators. drunk. none of this is brand new. whether this girl was a guest or not...the hotel allowed her in as it allows others in who either are drunk when they arrive or get drunk in the hotel. my point - drunk person wandering hotel hallways is not unusual. drunk ppl often will not perceive danger that sober ppl will perceive. like a walk-in freezer in an abandoned kitchen. was the girl irresponsible by getting drunk? sure. did she deserve to die for that? no. but she might have died. drunk. frozen. in the hotel's unsecured freezer. while the hotel staff did nothing to even try to find her after her mom alerted them that she was missing.

the girl has been punished for her irresponsibility. she paid w/her life. the question is whether the hotel or someone else will have to pay something for its irresponsibility. if the hotel's negligence was a factor in the girl's death. maybe it wasn't. or maybe some other person's act was a greater factor to the point where whatever the hotel did or didn't do doesn't matter as much and that other person should pay either w/money or liberty.