An award-winning Nigerian music director,
Aswad Ayinde, found guilty of fathering children with his daughters will
spend the rest of his life in jail.
According to
Mail Online, Ayinde, 55, of Paterson, New Jersey, United States, was
sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty in
the second of five expected trials in which he is accused of repeatedly
raping his six daughters, resulting in six children being fathered.
Mr. Ayinde was found guilty in his latest trial of having intercourse
with a daughters when she was as young as eight-years-old. The second
sentence adds to the 40 year sentence Mr Ayinde received in a 2011 trial
for sexually assaulting a separate daughter.
Mr. Ayinde is known for directing the music video for the Fugees 1996 smash hit “Killing Me Softly.”
In a disturbing disclosure during his first trial, Mr. Ayinde’s former
wife said he was trying to create a “pure family bloodline” by
impregnating his daughters. He even claimed during a pre-trial hearing
before the first trial that “the world was going to end, and it was just
going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen.”
In
this latest trial, it was revealed that Mr. Ayinde began having
intercourse with his second daughter from the time she eight-years-old,
impregnating her four times.
The sexual assaults happened for
almost 30 years until Mr. Ayinde and his wife separated, officials said.
They occurred in numerous homes across northern New Jersey, even while
the family was under watch of state child welfare officials, according
to NBC New York. Some of the rapes even took place in an abandoned
funeral home.
The family moving as far away as Florida to avoid
investigation after case workers removed multiple children from the
Ayinde household in 2000, resulting in Mr. Ayinde being arrested for
kidnapping for trying to take them from state custody in a medical
center, NBC New York reported.
He pleaded guilty to lesser
charges and received a year’s probation – as he continued raping one
daughter for at least another two years, according to officials.
The depraved father also beat and starved the girls using wooden boards
and steel-toed boots for even “minor transgressions,” Ayinde’s wife
testified at the first trial.
Some of the children Ayinde
fathered with his daughters were born in the home, with at least two
babies who died in the home having been buried without notifying
authorities or obtaining birth certificates, NBC New York reported.
Ayinde’s tortured daughters were home schooled and isolated from other
children, so as to keep the family secrets hidden, the station added.
With his wife too afraid to confront him, Mr. Ayinde carried out his
evil plan without hindrance even while directing the music video for the
Fugees 1996 breakout hit ‘Killing Me Softly, for which he won ‘Best
R&B Video’ at the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards. The Fugees are also
originally from Northern New Jersey.
Source: Tribune
