He’s a republican that:
In March 2019, Bevin said in an interview that he deliberately exposed all nine of his children to chickenpox so they would “catch the disease and become immune.”[287]
In May 2023, Glenna Bevin filed for divorce. The divorce petition stated the marriage was “irretrievably broken” and that the couple had been separated for more than a year.[288] On May 1, 2024, a Jefferson Circuit Judge granted Glenna Bevin’s motion to limit Matt Bevin’s access to their residence and property after his wife labeled his conduct “aggressive and unsettling.”[289] Their divorce was finalized in March 2025.[290]
In late 2019 after losing the governorship, Bevin sent his adopted son Jonah (first identified in the media with the pseudonym “Noah” in 2024) to Atlantis Leadership Academy in Jamaica.[291][292] The school, an unlicensed “troubled teen” program, was later shut down following an unannounced inspection of the facility on February 8, 2024, by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) after being alerted by the U.S. Embassy of possible abuse and neglect. The CPFSA and embassy officials found eight American boys aged 14–18 confined in primitive conditions without soap, toothpaste, lavatory paper or even running water in one bathroom. They were removed immediately and transferred by court order the following day into the interim legal custody of the CPFSA. When no Bevin family member or representative claimed Jonah, a judge ordered he be made a ward of the Jamaican State.[293][294]
In February 2025, Jonah Bevin publicly shared his account of severe abuse and neglect at Atlantis Leadership Academy, including violent beatings, starvation, and forms of torture.[292][295] After returning to the United States in May 2024 and obtaining a high school diploma, he was left homeless at age 18. On March 7, 2025, a Jefferson County, Kentucky judge issued a temporary protective order against Matt Bevin, restricting him from contacting Jonah Bevin and requiring him to relinquish all firearms in his possession until a March 19, 2025, hearing.[296] In March 2025, a deal was reached wherein the protective order would remain in place against the former governor for six months before the court case would end and an indefinite civil restraining order would begin. Any violations would result in additional hearings. Both adoptive parents are also required to provide Jonah with “any information or documents related to [his biological] family, whether they’re alive or not”.[297]
Thank you for sharing this - as disappointing as it was to read. People need to know - and be reminded - about how horrible conservatives can be.
I feel for the abuse the son received. I can’t imagine what it would take to overcome the trauma.
In March 2019, Bevin said in an interview that he deliberately exposed all nine of his children to chickenpox so they would “catch the disease and become immune.”[287]
What year was that?
I mean, when I was a kid, there was no chickenpox vaccine available. I didn’t even realize that we’d finally developed one until a few years ago.
I don’t think that my parents intentionally went out of their way to expose me, though I did catch it, but intentional exposure certainly wasn’t some sort of wacko practice at the time. You were likely to catch it sooner or later, and it could be much more severe if you had it late in life — you wanted immunity earlier rather than later. Chickenpox was just kinda part of life.
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Looks like it was rolling out in the US in the mid-1990s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party
Pox parties, also known as flu parties, are social activities in which children are deliberately exposed to infectious diseases such as chickenpox. Such parties originated to “get it over with” before vaccines were available for a particular illness or because childhood infection might be less severe than infection during adulthood, according to proponents.[1][2] For example, measles[3] is more dangerous to adults than to children over five years old.[1][4][5] Deliberately exposing people to diseases has since been discouraged by public health officials in favor of vaccination, which has caused a decline in the practice of pox parties,[6] although flu parties saw a resurgence in the early 2010s.[7]
In the United States, chickenpox parties were popularized before the introduction of the varicella vaccine in 1995.[9][19][20] Children were also sometimes intentionally exposed to other common childhood illnesses, such as mumps and measles.[21] Before vaccines for these infections became available, parents regarded these diseases as almost inevitable.[21]
Get a shingles vaccine yesterday. My aunt suffers from it and she tells me it is the most horrible pain ever.
The chicken pox thing sounds like the least abnormal out of all of the behavior listed. As you mentioned ‘pox parties’ were a thing when I was a kid in the 90’s. I never attended one but my folks made almost no effort to keep my sibling seperate from me after he caught it at school.
So this is related to a family court case, and it sounds like this guy has earned it. He’s repeatedly failed to turn over documents, and has ignored multiple orders to appear before the court in person, instead showing up via Zoom with a new excuse each time. Sound’s like he’s just another rich guy playing games and wasting time.
