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| Aswad Ayinde |
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 the 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 which he fathered.
Ayinde was found guilty in his latest
trial of having intercourse with a daughter, when she was as young as
eight years old. According to the Mail Online report, the second
sentence adds to the 40 years sentence
Ayinde received in a 2011 trial
for sexually assaulting a separate daughter.
Ayinde is known for directing the music video for the Fugees 1996 smash hit, Killing Me Softly.
Fugees had international recording artistes like Wyclef Sean and Lauryn Hill.
In a disturbing disclosure during his
first trial, 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 Ayinde began having intercourse with his second daughter from the
time she was eight years old, impregnating her four times.
The sexual assaults happened for almost 30 years until 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 rape episodes 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 Ayinde household in 2000, resulting in 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 was said to have 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, 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: Yahoo News
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