US-based Nigerian Music Producer Jailed 90 years for Raping His Daughters

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Aswad Ayinde
Aswad Ayinde

The sins of Nigeriaโ€™s international award-winning music video producer Aswad Ayinde have finally caught up with him,ย  culminating into 90 years in jail.

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Last Friday, a New Jersey court in the United States once moreย  lowered the hammer on disgraced Ayinde, who won an MTV award forย  directing The Fugeesโ€™ Killing Me Softly, after agreeing withย  prosecutors that he repeatedly raped his daughters to create a โ€˜pureโ€™ย  bloodline that would survive Doomsday. Many of the rapes took place inย  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 theย  mid-1980s until 2002. He also had nine children with his former wife,ย  Beverly, and amother three with two other women in Brooklyn, accordingย  to court documents.
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Reporting on his conviction, northjersey.com said:
As Aswad Ayindeโ€™s daughter stood up to speak, the judge ordered himย  to put down the court papers he was hunched over and face the daughterย  he had assaulted and raped since she was 8 years old, fathering her four children.
โ€œI canโ€™t describe how much you hurt me and my sisters,โ€ the daughter, now 35, said Friday to her father, shackled in a prison jumpsuit, hisย  head still bowed, eyes never once meeting hers.
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As the woman rehashed the horrors her father inflicted on her and her sisters in Paterson, Ayinde burst out, โ€œYou shouldโ€™ve told the truthย  instead of lying,โ€ bringing an admonishment from Superior Court Judgeย  Raymond Reddin, who told him that not only did he believe the daughterโ€™s testimony, but also so did the 12 jurors who convicted him.
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Ultimately, the daughter said she forgave her father and hoped at some time heโ€™d repent.
โ€œBut obviously, with your head down like that, you do notย  understand,โ€ she said, three of her sisters fighting tears in theย  courtroom pews.
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After the daughter finished, Reddin on Friday tacked on 50 years toย  the 40-year prison sentence Ayinde, 54, received in 2010 after beingย  convicted of raping another of his daughters, who bore a fifth child.
The former music producer and self-proclaimed prophet faces threeย  more trials for allegedly sexually assaulting three other daughtersย  after requesting separate trials.
Prosecutors have said that Ayinde dominated his children as aย  god-like prophet who wanted to create a race that carried his pureย  bloodline. Over the years, he molested five of his seven daughters andย  fathered six children, the family and their attorney said.
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By about 2001, the family had mostly split up, Ayinde โ€œbouncingย  around,โ€ but still in reach of his family, the daughter said. In 2003,ย  he tried to rape her for the last time.
โ€œThat was it. โ€ฆ I just felt stronger,โ€ she said.
Yet, it wasnโ€™t until she and her sisters learned that Ayinde hadย  fathered more children with other women that they decided to go to theย  authorities in 2006.
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โ€œWe found out we had other siblings, young siblings, and we had toย  put him to a stop,โ€ the daughter said after the sentencing hearing.ย  โ€œEven though we were healing, they could still fall victim.โ€
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These days, the sisters stay in close touch. The daughter who spokeย  Friday is studying communications at Essex County College โ€” โ€œstraightย  Aโ€™s last semester,โ€ she said โ€” and has just finished a memoir. As forย  her four children, two have genetic illnesses that doctors told herย  likely were due in part to the incest. A 9-year-old daughter died inย  2010 of spinal muscular atrophy.
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In sentencing Ayinde, Reddin could not hide his disgust for what he had done.
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โ€œBy 13, most fathers are taking their daughters to the park โ€ฆย  teaching them to ride a bike,โ€ he said. โ€œYou took her in the bedroom and repeatedly raped her to complete your disgusting, revolting fantasies.โ€
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