Sin City Earns Its Name

It's estimated that around 400 underage girls are prostituted in Las Vegas, every single night.

On Friday, Shared Hope International began a national awareness campaign called "End Demand: Kids Are Not For Sale." The campaign kicked off with a candle lit vigil and march in Las Vegas last Friday, June 12. Shared Hope has done two reports, released in 2008 and May, that name Las Vegas as a hub for child sex slavery in America.

Vegas has made quite a name for itself as an adult's paradise with no consequences--all the way down to its wink-wink slogan "What happens here, stays here." Regardless of how you feel about Vegas, I hope we can all agree that it's time to take some collective responsibility for making sure that child sex trafficking never happens there--and if it does, rather than simply "staying there," it's met with some serious jail time.