"An 11-year-old girl in five-point shackles is escorted into a courtroom. Her crime? She was caught in the back of a van with a 43-year-old man who had paid for 30 minutes of her time to do whatever he wanted to with her. There was the man when the girl was in court? He’d already been released, fined $50 for misdemeanor solicitation and set free...This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, but slavery still exists today, and this is what it looks like..."

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By Rabbi Rachael Bregman, A Rabbis Without Borders Fellow, from The Atlanta Jewish Times, 9/20/12