to believe that only he and his offspring would survive the end of the world is to go on trial charged with fathering six children with his own daughters.
Aswad Ayinde, 51, who describes himself as a film-maker and soft-drink entrepreneur, is accused of raping five of his daughters and making three of them pregnant.
Authorities describe Mr Ayinde, also known as Eric McGill, as a “blueblood” engaged in a perverse attempt to keep his bloodline pure.
“He said the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen,” his ex-wife, Beverly, testified at a recent hearing.
Joseph Del Russo, a prosecutor, said: “The witnesses’ statements describe a depraved parent with a Messianic complex.” Some of the children produced through the incestuous unions suffer health problems.
Mr Ayinde eluded child welfare investigators by moving from town to town in New Jersey and Florida from 1985 to 2002. He allegedly beat his children with boards and kicked them with steel-capped boots to stop them speaking about the rapes.
Many of the alleged rapes took place when the family was living in an abandoned funeral home in Paterson, New Jersey. Mr Ayinde reportedly renovated a room for himself but forced the rest of his family to live in the dilapidated portion of the building.
Some of the babies were delivered at home. Two died, while those that survived never obtained birth certificates and were home-schooled.
Beverly Ayinde, who had nine children with her husband, said: “He was having regular relationships with all the girls. I wasn’t fighting back. I was afraid to fight back. I was afraid to ever accuse him of being demented or being a paedophile. I knew the word, but I wouldn’t dare use it because it would result in a beating.”
Mr Ayinde was arrested in 2006 and has been held on a $1 million (Ł660,000) bond after arriving for a hearing with a woman and child despite a ban on contact with children.
Starting next month, he faces separate trials for the alleged rape of each of his five daughters
Originally Posted by billynomates
In the UK, I know of people who have had good experiences in prison that they would rather be there than out in the community, leading them to commit petty crimes in order to get another stint in prison. This is certainly true for those who come out and are homeless. Prison not only then provides a roof over their head, but food in their stomachs, an income through prison jobs, education, health care. Even those who commit horrendous crimes and are let out, find it a struggle, reoffend because they want to go back.
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