Music Video Director Aswad Ayinde Accused of Raping Daughters

(March 12) -- A New Jersey man accused of raping and impregnating his daughters to produce "pure-blooded" offspring directed the music video of the 1996 Fugees hit "Killing Me Softly." Aswad Ayinde, 51, will appear in five trials in New Jersey in the coming months, one for each daughter he is accused of raping beginning in the 1980s, the New York Daily News reports.

New Jersey prosecutors say Ayinde, who also goes by the name Eric McGill, fathered six children with his daughters and delivered the babies, two of whom died, himself, according to The Times of London. Authorities referred to him as a "bluebood" -- someone who wants to keep his bloodlines pure.

Ayinde moved his family around different homes in New Jersey and Florida between 1985 and 2002, at one point living in an abandoned funeral home in New Jersey. He allegedly beat his kids with boards and kicked them with steel-tipped boots to keep them from talking.

Ayinde has nine children with ex-wife Beverly Ayinde and at least three others with two Brooklyn women. Subhana Rahim, 40, a former lawyer at a Manhattan law firm, told the Daily News that she lived with Ayinde from 2001 to 2004 and is the mother of two of his children.

"He was this successful artist who had worked with The Fugees," Rahim told the Daily News. "I was shocked when he told me they were his daughters and that he'd been sleeping with them."

At a pretrial hearing, Beverly Ayinde testified that she never confronted her husband because she was afraid he would beat her. He threatened to kill them and often deprived them of food, according to NorthJersey.com.

"He said the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen," she said.

A judge will decide today if she can testify against Ayinde, who is facing 27 charges, including aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, lewdness, child endangerment, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact.