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Allegheny County Police have charged a 29-year-old Pitcairn man in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl.
Joshua Davon Austin-Pollard faces multiple felonies, including rape and sexual assault.
Police say the events took place at Austin-Pollard’s Third Street home three days after Christmas. The charges also include interference with custody of children, corruption of minors and aggravated indecent assault.
A preliminary hearing for Austin-Pollard was held at Monroeville’s district court March 1, where Judge Jeffrey Herbst dropped a charge of dissemination of explicit sexual material to a minor, said Sgt. Matt Mineard of Allegheny County Police Department’s general investigations unit.
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Why democracy fails in Nigeria
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By Hussaini Abdu
Globally, democracy has been under significant critical interrogation – both in the advanced and new democracies. The interrogations are informed by increasing right-wing populism, inequality and poverty, slow economic growth, and shrinking civic space. No time has democracy been this interrogated since the end of the Second World War.
While the left and Africanist criticism of liberal democracy have been consistent, we have in the last 10 years seen increasing concerns about the failures of democracy even among liberal scholars. The conversation has shifted from liberal triumphalism of the Fukuyama’s “End of History” to a more interrogative view of democracy even among liberal scholars: See for instance, “How Democracy Die” – Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, 2018; “People vs Democracy: Why our Freedom is in Danger and How to save it” – Yascha Mounk, 2018; “The Road t