Aswad Ayinde, a man jailed in the US for 90 years, is not Nigerian. Several Nigerian blogs and a national newspaper are spreading a story t...
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Aswad Ayinde, a man jailed in the US for 90 years, is not Nigerian.
Several Nigerian blogs and a national newspaper are spreading a story that a Nigerian man was sentenced to 90 years in prison in the U.S. for having children with his daughters, but other than his name, there isn't much proof that he is Nigerian.
Mail Online in the UK was the first to tell the story. Here's how it was told:
Aswad Ayinde, a music director who has won many awards, will spend the rest of his life in jail if he is found guilty of having children with his daughters.
Aswad Ayinde, a 55-year-old man from Paterson, New Jersey, was given a 50-year prison sentence on Friday after being found guilty in the second of five trials he is expected to face. He is accused of regularly raping his six daughters, which caused them to have six children.
In his most recent trial, Mr. Ayinde was found guilty of having sex with one of his children when she was as young as eight years old. The second term is on top of the 40 years Mr. Ayinde got for sexually assaulting a different daughter in 2011.
Mr. Ayinde is known for directing the music video for the Fugees' 1996 hit song "Killing Me Softly."
During his first hearing, Mr. Ayinde's ex-wife told the court that he was trying to make a "pure family bloodline" by getting his daughters pregnant. During a pre-trial meeting before the first trial, he even said, "The world was going to end, and it would just be him and his children, and he was chosen."
In this most recent hearing, it came out that Mr. Ayinde had sex with his second daughter when she was only eight years old and got her pregnant four times.
Officials say that the sexual attacks went on for almost 30 years, until Mr. Ayinde and his wife broke up. NBC New York says that they happened in several homes in northern New Jersey, even though the family was being watched by state child welfare workers. Some of the rapes even happened in a funeral home that had been left empty.
Case workers took several children from the Ayinde home in 2000, and Mr. Ayinde was arrested for kidnapping when he tried to get them back from state care in a hospital, according to NBC New York. The family moved as far away as Florida to avoid being investigated.
He pleaded guilty to lower charges and got a year of probation, even though officials say he kept raping one daughter for at least two more years after he pleaded guilty.
At the first hearing, Ayinde's wife said that the evil father also beat and starved the girls for "minor mistakes" with wooden boards and steel-toed boots.
Some of the children Ayinde had with his daughters were born in the home. At least two babies who died in the home were buried without telling the officials or getting birth certificates, NBC New York said.
The station also said that Ayinde's tortured girls were taught at home and kept away from other kids so that the family's secrets could stay hidden.
Mr. Ayinde went ahead with his evil plan because his wife was too afraid to talk to him about it. He did this while directing the music video for the Fugees' 1996 hit "Killing Me Softly," for which he won the "Best R&B Video" award at the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards. The Fugees are from Northern New Jersey as well.
Ayinde's real name is Charles/Eric McGill, and none of the American or British news outlets that covered the story mentioned that he was of Nigerian descent. In March, XXlMag.com said that he was "born and raised in Patterson, New Jersey."
We at urnaija would really appreciate it if someone could show that Charles McGill/Aswad Ayinde is connected to Nigeria in some way other than his name.
Nigerians already get a lot of bad news, so we shouldn't add to it by telling lies.
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