Nigeria’s international award-winning music video producer, Aswad Ayinde, who had earlier being sentenced to 40 years imprisonment for raping his daughters, has got an additional 50-year jail term for the offence.
According to 247ureports, a New Jersey court in the United States, last Friday found Ayinde, who won an MTV award for directing The Fugees’ Killing Me Softly, guilty after agreeing with prosecutors that he repeatedly raped his daughters to create a ‘pure’ bloodline that would survive doomsday.
According to the report, many of the rapes took place in an abandoned funeral home. He even delivered the babies himself in a bid to keep his depraved plot secret.
Ayinde, 55, fathered six children with his daughters from the mid-1980s until 2002. He also had nine children with his former wife, Beverly, and another three with two other women in Brooklyn, according to court documents.
During the court proceedings, according to northjersey.com, when Ayinde’s daughter stood up to speak, the judge ordered him to put down the court papers he was hunched over and face the daughter he had assaulted and raped since she was eight years old, fathering her four children.
“I can’t describe how much you hurt me and my sisters,” the daughter, now 35, said to her father, who was dressed in a prison jumpsuit with his head bowing down.
As the woman rehashed the horrors her father inflicted on her and her sisters in Paterson, Ayinde reportedly burst out: “You should’ve told the truth instead of lying,” bringing an admonishment from Superior Court Judge Raymond Reddin, who told him that not only did he believe the daughter’s testimony, but also so did the 12 jurors who convicted him.
The daughter said she forgave her father and hoped at some time he would repent.
“But obviously, with your head down like that, you do not understand,” she added, with three of her sisters fighting tears in the courtroom pews.
After the daughter finished, Reddin tacked on 50 years to the 40-year prison sentence Ayinde, 54, received in 2010 after being convicted of raping another of his daughters, who bore a fifth child.
The former music producer and self-proclaimed prophet is now facing more trials for allegedly sexually assaulting three other daughters after requesting separate trials.
Prosecutors said Ayinde dominated his children as a god-like prophet who wanted to create a race that carried his pure bloodline. Over the years, he molested five of his seven daughters and fathered six children, the family and their attorney said.
By about 2001, the family had mostly split up, Ayinde “bouncing around,” but still in reach of his family, the daughter said. In 2003, he tried to rape her for the last time.
“That was it. … I just felt stronger,” she said. Yet, it wasn’t until she and her sisters learned that Ayinde had fathered more children with other women that they decided to go to the authorities in 2006.
“We found out we had other siblings, young siblings, and we had to put him to a stop,” the daughter said after the sentencing hearing. “Even though we were healing, they could still fall victim,” she added.
The sisters are said to be staying in close touch. The daughter who spoke last Friday is studying communications at Essex County College — “straight A’s last semester,” she said — and has just finished a memoir.
As for her four children, two have genetic illnesses that doctors told her likely were due in part to the incest. A nine-year-old daughter died in 2010 of spinal muscular atrophy.
In sentencing Ayinde, Reddin could not hide his disgust for what he had done. “By 13, most fathers are taking their daughters to the park …teaching them to ride a bike,” he said. “You took her in the bedroom and repeatedly raped her to complete your disgusting, revolting fantasies,” he added.
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