Study finds underage, fearful women in Vegas sex trafficking
A yearlong academic study of sex trafficking in Las Vegas is providing a glimpse into a shadowy world beneath the neon glow where underage girls, threatened by pimps, solicit for business in casinos, on streets and online.
Of 190 identified sex-trafficking victims in 2014, Arizona State University researchers found two-thirds were under 18 years old, one in five was brought to southern Nevada from somewhere else and more than half were never reported as missing.
"These are kids that nobody even cares enough about to report missing," said Laura Meltzer, a Las Vegas police officer involved in the report's roll-out. "As a mom, that breaks my heart."
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