Former Gov. Matt Bevin ordered by court to stay away from adopted son

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Former Gov. Matt Bevin ordered by court to stay away from adopted son

A Jefferson County judge has ordered former Gov. Matt Bevin to refrain from contacting his adopted son, 18-year-old Jonah Bevin, until an upcoming court hearing, online court records show.

The Friday order gives Jonah temporary protection until a hearing March 19, according to a

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. Bevin must also temporarily turn over any firearms to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, according to the outlet.

The Courier Journal confirmed the emergency protection order was filed but was unable to obtain a copy Friday evening.

The order comes after reports last year revealed Jonah, then 17, was housed at an abusive residential facility for troubled teens in Treasure Beach, Jamaica. The facility shut down last year, and Jonah was left in the custody of the country’s child services agency after his adoptive parents, Matt and Glenna Bevin, didn’t retrieve him from a court hearing for children who had been in the facility’s care,

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in London first reported.

Bevin has multiple adopted children and

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In a recent interview with the

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marking his first public statements since returning to the U.S., Jonah revealed he was regularly beaten while living at the facility and called for accountability.

“I just want, to be honest, accountability to be taken,” Jonah told the Lantern. “I want the people who did what they did to be accountable.”

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