The way some people reason just leaves one to wonder sometimes.
An
award-winning music director found guilty of fathering children with his
daughters will spend the rest of his life in jail.
Aswad
Ayinde, 55, 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. 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.
Mr. Ayinde
also fathered 12 additional children with an additional three women, according
to court records
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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