A music video director
Aswad Ayinde, 55, who won an MTV award for directing The Fugees’ ‘Killing
Me Softly’ in 1996, has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for repeatedly
raping his six daughters and fathering six children with them.
According to Mail Online
and posted by Wassupnow.com,
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.
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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.
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