The MTV award-winning director of The Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly” video was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexual assault Friday (July 26), according to The NY Daily News. This will be added to a 40-year sentence Aswad Ayinde received more than a year ago for similar charges regarding the sexual abuse of his daughters.
Ayinde has been under investigation for raping his daughters and forcing them to have his children. The 55-year-old fathered six children with his daughters between the 1980s and early 2000s, performing the deliveries himself and burying children that didn’t survive, according to the NY Daily News.
The 50-year prison term was given to Ayinde in a trial regarding the abuse of his now 35-year-old daughter. He was convicted of abusing her repeatedly from the time she was 8.
“I can’t describe how much you hurt me and my sisters,” his daughter told Ayinde in court, according to NorthJersey.com.
In order to avoid further investigations, Ayinde reportedly moved the family often, at one point spending time in an abandoned funeral home in New Jersey.
When Ayinde moved to Brooklyn, he met and lived with Subhana Rahim, an attorney who reportedly lived with him from 2001 to 2004. Rahim says she discovered that Ayinde was abusing his children while she was pregnant with his child in 2002. “He was this successful artist who had worked with The Fugees,” Rahim told the paper. “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.”
