The world was horrified when we heard about the 73-year-old Austrian man who confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children.
Today, we are just as horrified to learn about the MTV award-winning director of the Fugee’s video, Aswad Ayinde, who fathered six kids with his daughters from the mid 1980’s to 2002.
Ayinde did this in order to create a “pure” bloodline. He even delivered the babies himself.
Aswad Ayinde who most recently lived in New Jersey, also had nine kids with his ex-wife Beverly and at least three more with two other women in Brooklyn.
According to news sources, Beverly Avinde who was married to Aswad in 1977 told the court that she was afraid to ever accuse him of being demented or being a pedophile. She knew the word, but she didn’t dare use it because it would result in a beating.
Avinde who is being held on $1 million bond has 27 charges against him, including aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, lewdness, child endangerment, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact.
He is also known as Charles McGill and faces the first of five trials next month - one for each daughter he allegedly violated, said the Passaic County prosecutor’s office.
His arrest prompted a probe by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services to determine how the suspect allegedly turned his daughters into sex slaves without their knowing.
Some of the crimes allegedly occurred while the family was under scrutiny by DYFS - and after Avinde admitted in 2000 to the attempt to snatch his children from a hospital while the state had temporary custody.
Prosecutors said Ayinde kept the kids from talking by beating them with wooden boards or kicking them with steel-toed boots.
When news reporters visited the home of one of Avinde’s children in New Jersey, a young woman said Ayinde was her father but refused to talk about the case. She told news reporters that "It's a painful thing. It's not something we're going to talk about outside of our family. The truth is coming out now, after a long time. That's it."
These stories are horrific to all of us … but if you know of – or even suspect someone of committing these abuses and crimes call 911 immediately.
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