An award-winning music director who impregnated one of his daughters
four times has been found guilty and will spend the rest of his life in
jail, reports Daily Mail online. Aswad Ayinde, 55, also known as
Charles McGill of Paterson, NJ, was sentenced to 50 years in prison
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. He also fathered 12 additional children
with an additional three women, according to court records Mr.
Ayinde, whose name sounds western Nigerian, was found guilty in his
latest trial of having intercourse with one of his 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 was
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 centre, 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. Mr. Ayinde faces three more trials over the alleged assaults.
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