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A Hennepin County judge has ordered U.S. Senate candidate Royce White not to contact his ex-wife and son, finding the former basketball star liable for abuse that left his family “plainly in fear.”

The order for protection prohibits White from contact with his ex-wife for 50 years and with his teenage son for two years.

Judge Kristen Marttila issued the order in February and wrote that White’s ex-wife — who divorced him in 2015 and lived with him from 2022 until August of last year — is “utterly at a loss for how else to gain peace from him.”

This is the third order for protection that White’s ex-wife has obtained against him, but the first time he has been ordered to stay away from his son. They also share a daughter together, who he is allowed to continue seeing.

The order for protection is a civil ruling but if White violates it he can face additional criminal charges. White appealed the decision on April 16.

The petition was filed last December by White’s ex-wife and alleged that he had routinely abused her and their son and that it “has been escalating towards me and our children, making me scared for all of our safety.”

She said White threatened her in public, hit her in private and traumatized their children with his behavior.

Marttila found that several of the allegations were true, including incidents where White abused his son at high school basketball practice.