Jailed producer not a Nigerian

Contrary to reports, the music video producer recently convicted for raping his daughters, Aswad Ayinde, is American and not a Nigerian, writes CHUX OHAI

Emerging feelers indicate that the award-winning music video producer, Aswad Ayinde, who was allegedly sentenced to 90 years in jail in the USA for fathering six children with his own daughters, is not a Nigerian after all.

Ayinde, whose real name is believed to be either Eric McGill or Charles McGill, has been described as a ‘misguided’ Afrocentric American who, in the process of  tracing his roots back to Africa, decided to adopt a Nigerian name. He is an American citizen and a resident of Paterson, New Jersey.

A controversy appears to surround the actual identity of the shamed producer on social media. Just as various reports identify him as Eric McGill, a quick check online shows that Ayinde was mentioned in a story published by True Crime Report as Charles McGill.   Full Story?

About three years ago, the  self-styled ‘doomsday’ prophet’s  former wife, Beverly, in what seemed like a damning testimony, told a North Jersey court that he raped his daughters and impregnated three of them after declaring that the world was coming to an end and his offspring would be the sole survivors.

“He was having regular relationships with all the girls,” she said, adding that she was too afraid to fight back.

Beverly said Ayinde’s children were not allowed to attend school outside their home and no doctor was permitted to see them.

She said her former husband delivered his grandchildren himself with her assistance and there were no birth certificates.

Beverly was not named as a victim in the sexual assault charges against Ayinde, but she said members of his family were all subject to brutal beatings, often deprived food and threatened with death.

In all, five of Ayinde’s daughters were allegedly raped. Four of the alleged victims were the daughters of Beverly. According to the witnesses, he threatened to kill the entire family, if anyone revealed his activities.

In the first trial, Ayinde faced counts of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, lewdness, child endangerment, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact.

He was found guilty in his latest trial of having intercourse with one of his daughters when she was only eight-years-old. The second sentence adds to the 40 year sentence that he received in a 2011 trial for sexually assaulting a separate daughter.

A report posted on NBC, New York said that in the latest trial, it was revealed that Ayinde sexually assaulted his daughters for almost 30 years. The crimes were perpetrated in numerous homes across northern New 

Jersey, even while the family was under the watch of state child welfare investigators.

Described as a ‘depraved parent with a Messianic complex’, Ayinde’s actions have also fuelled speculations on social media that he might belong to a dangerous secret cult. Apart from subjecting his victims to torture, it is suspected that he must have hypnotised or cast a spell through magical means to keep them from exposing his dark secrets.