Award-winning director Aswad Ayinde aka Charles McGill resumes his testimony for a third day as he stands trial for allegedly raping and physically abusing five of his daughters and impregnating three.
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Reportedly, Ayinde will stand trial for each daughter, who are all over the age of 18.
The 51-year-old director of the defunct R&B group The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" video faces 27 charges, including aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, lewdness, child endangerment, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact and the list goes on.
Ayinde, who prosecutors say is obsessed with creating a pure bloodline, allegedly maintained his house of horrors for over two decades, from 1980 until 2002. The family lived mostly in East Orange, New Jersey, in an abandoned funeral home, where they all squatted for quite some time.
Court records indicate that Ayinde would brutally beat his children into submission, oftentimes kicking them with steel-toe boots, and never allowed them to attend public school. Ayinde reportedly demanded that the children be home-schooled, so that they would never have the opportunity to divulge what was going on in their home.
Ex-wife, Beverly, who married Ayinde in 1977, also testified at a pretrial hearing and is now at the actual trial. The Mother of nine claims that she, too, was a victim and was scared to death of reporting her spouse to authorities:
"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," she told the Associated Press.
The three daughters that Ayinde impregnated gave birth to a total of six children, and Ayinde allegedly delivered all of the infants at home. Ayinde also reportedly buried two of the babies, who were stillborn.
Ayinde, who claims he is not guilty of the charges weighed against him, stated to the jurors that he loved his children and said that his ex-wife's testimony, claiming he was physically abusive to his children, was "fabricated" and that they all lived in a peaceful polygamous household.