You need no further proof that the movie Precious is actually played out in real life than what allegedly took place in northern New Jersey. The man who directed the Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly” video is now in jail because he actually did what was depicted in the Academy Award-nominated movie; repeatedly committed rape and incest.
Award-winning director Aswad Ayinde is being held on a $1 million bond after being charged with raping and fathering children from his own daughters. Ayinde, 51, who is also known as Charles McGill, is charged with 27 counts ranging from child endangerment to aggravated sexual assault.
Prosecutors say Ayinde’s daughters bore him six children from the mid 1980s through 2002, the New York Daily News reports.
“He said the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen,” says Beverly Ayinde, Ayinde’s ex-wife who testified in a pre-trial and has nine children with the accused. “I was afraid to ever accuse him of being demented or being a pedophile. I knew the word, but I wouldn’t dare use it because it would result in a beating.” reports. Ayinde’s presumably watched over each baby’s delivery, “with his motivation being to create a “pure” bloodline to survive the world’s apocalypse,” the newspaper reports.
Beverly Ayinde did not provide an explanation as to why she kept his last name after divorcing Ayinde, a man accused of horrid crimes against her children.
Now that the rape and incest charges are out, the floodgates of information have opened. An ex-girlfriend named Subhana Rahim told the New York Daily News that she has two children with Ayinde, and lived with him from 2001–2004. She claims the MTV-award winning director referred to his older daughters as his “wives.” Rahim first learned about the repeated acts of child abuse and rape in 2002.
“He was this successful artist who had worked with the Fugees,” she stated. “I was shocked when he told me they were his daughters and that he’d been sleeping with them … I didn’t try to understand something so ridiculous.”
One of the daughters, who refused to identify herself, told reporters outside the Ayinde home that the accusations were true.
“It’s a painful thing. It’s not something we’re going to talk about outside the family,” she told the NY Daily News. “The truth is coming out now, after a long time. That’s it.”
But that’s not it. Aswad Ayinde landed on the radar of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services 10 years ago. They had taken temporary custody of his kids for brutal beatings that included steel-toe boots and wooden boards. Later, the Daily News reports, Ayinde would snatch his children from the hospital where they were under state care and move his move his family throughout Northern Jersey, including Paterson and East Orange. –terry shropshire
