Former Kentucky President Matt Bevin took his position at Jefferson’s Family Court on Friday morning and investigated his raided son, who faced the teenager’s request to protect the couple who raised him 13 years ago.
Jona Bevin, the son of Matt and Glena Bevin, told the story of an emergency lawyer’s request recorded earlier this month and in talks with the newspaper Kurier and other media outlets.
The 18-year-old Ethiopian, who was adopted by Bevens in 2012 and called for an emergency order earlier this month, calls for a long-term protection order against them on charges of insult and resignation.
Matt Matt and Glena Bevin, whose divorce ended earlier this week, did not comment after the meeting. No decision was made by Judge Angela Johnson, and the case will continue on Tuesday afternoon, with witnesses expected.
In the case, Glena Bevin is represented by Steve Rominiz, the top lawyer of Louisville, who asked Jona for about 25 minutes about his treatment and interactions with his mother-in-law, while Jona John Hellmers was accompanied by a local advisor.
Down J. Post, a child advocate in New York, worked on Jona’s case in a few months before Friday’s session, but did not attend the session.
Matt Bevin didn’t hired a lawyer and didn’t beat Jona. From late 2015 to 2019, the governor, among his reference to the first and third persons, investigated the teenager’s charges against him and insulted him during his childhood years and left him last year in a painful house for “conscious challenges” in Jamaica.
Former Kentucky President Matt Bevin and former US First Lady Glena Bevin listens to their son, Jona Bevin, answers questions on March 21, 2025 at Jefferson’s Family Court.
Rominiz closed the questions after asking Jona whether Glena Bevin “has a threat to you, either violent with you or really even seen you,” and the teenager answered him.
In the receipt of the emergency protection order, which was passed earlier this month, Jona said Glena had beaten her as a child, citing an example of a court in Ankhorej’s house in Ankhorej.
Matt Bevin, who was asked by the judge to look at him instead of Jona, was asked after the teenager answered Helmers’ questions after Rominiz’s finish. About 25 minutes before the end of the meeting, he would return with Jonah, sometimes referring to his incorrectness in the statements of his raised son.
One of the points of the conflict is a planned journey abroad last month to meet his biological mother Jona.
Jona, who lived in Utah at the time after leaving a “teenager” school in the state, said Matt Bevin had touched it at the end of February and asked, “How would you like to go to Ethiopia?” Jonah, who said he grew up, was told that his mother was dead. He said he replied and said he was not comfortable, but Matt Bevin had ignored the answer and sent him information about a trip.
“He said that your mother is alive and sends me a picture of my mother that day — after they told her the whole life that she was dead,” Jona reminded him. He eventually agreed to go, but he retreated on the concerns of the information given to him, and who would be with when he arrived.
“It’s a personal choice that you’ve gone or not,” Matt Bevin said. Jona said after retreating from the trip, the breeding father told him that he had lost his only opportunity to get to know his biological mother.
“Afterwards, we will provide the genuine document of the relationship and what is actually said to court,” Bevin said.
Jona Bevin case
Jona Bevin, 18, answers questions on March 21, 2025 at Jefferson’s Family Court, Jona has ordered an order to protect the parents of breeders, Matt Bevin, former president of Kentucky and his wife Glena Bevin. Jona’s lawyer, John Helmers, is right.
Earlier this month, Jona called for a relief order against the raised father, who needed Matt Bevin not to contact Joneo on time and temporarily shook his fire to Jefferson’s Sharif County office.
The 18-year story of Ethiopians came first last summer when the London Times reported a law enforcement campaign at the Atlantis Leadership Academy in Jamaica, a dormitory school for “conflict adolescents” in which Yunna remained in rape. His parents did not attend court hearings to see how to bring him back to the United States
In an interview earlier this month, Jona said he had been sent to several similar programs in the United States since 2020, when he was 13 years old, due to a family dispute with his parents. Before being sent to Jamaica in 2023, he was arrested as a teenager after a confrontation with Matt Bevin at his home in Ankoridge.
As he lived in Utah last month after his release from a “consuminged adolescent” school in November, Jona said he had been called by a man on behalf of his parents. Jona eventually retreated, saying he said about his concerns about the trust of the information.
Post, the lawyer who represents Jona, who leads Tuesday’s session, said he believed Jona’s parents could be charged with quitting, a gradual crime in Kentucky. According to the court documents, EPO has been recorded due to “natural threats, giving up and neglecting,” as “authentic reason why he believed that more harm” if not given.
Jona was one of the four Ethiopian children raised by Bevin family in 2012. Matt Bevin spoke to the Kentucky breeding care system during her election campaign before the 2015 election campaign. Since then, Jona has said that he believed it was taken because of the “general image.
Matt and Glena Bevin have not responded to requests from the Kurier Journal or any other news agency about Jona’s charges. There are no criminal charges.
This story may be renewed.
Receiving Lucas Oulbach at Laulbach@courin-Journal.com.
This article was initially in the magazine Louisville Courer Journal: Matt Bevin.