B.J. Penn has been served with a brief restraining order permitted by a decide in Hawaii after his mom filed for defense from her son following two separate arrests involving the UFC legend.
On Tuesday, Penn’s mom Lorraine Shin filed for the restraining order in opposition to Penn citing “excessive psychological abuse” after he claimed she was really an imposter who “killed his household” and took over his mom’s id.
Decide Jeffrey Ng permitted the non permanent restraining order, which was served to Penn on Tuesday in accordance with on-line court docket data. The restraining order stays in place for no less than 180 days and Penn is due in court docket on June 10 for a full listening to on the matter.
Penn is just not allowed inside 100 toes of his mom whereas the order stays in place, and he’s additionally not allowed inside 100 yards of anyplace his mom resides or works.
As a part of the non permanent restraining order, Penn should additionally attend the court docket listening to in June. He isn’t allowed to “threaten, bodily abuse or psychologically abuse” the petitioner—his mom—and he’s additionally not allowed to “contact, write, phone or in any other case electronically contact” his mom or anybody dwelling together with his mom.
Violating the restraining order is taken into account a misdemeanor and will end in punishment of as much as one 12 months in jail in addition to a superb as much as $1,000.
Shin filed for the restraining order after Penn was arrested this previous Sunday and Monday on costs of abuse of a household or family member.
Within the documentation filed for the restraining order, Shin claimed she returned house from a visit and located all of her belongings faraway from her bed room. Penn denied any involvement in lacking property. A couple of days later, Shin claimed her purse was stolen from a protected and that led to her making a theft report with police.
Shin later put in a lock on her bed room door together with safety cameras for the home however claims Penn took down the cameras and “he additionally put glue into my lifeless bolts that stopped me from opening my bed room door.”
This previous weekend, Shin informed police she returned house from a separate journey and located that Penn had allegedly put duct tape over her safety cameras and glue into the deadbolt lock on her bed room door to forestall her from getting into. Shin later accused Penn of stealing her mail and when she claims she discovered the mail behind a car that belonged to one among her son’s buddies, the 46-year-old fighter denied it was her mail and allegedly grabbed her arms and shoved her in opposition to the automotive, which led to his mom screaming on the prime of her lungs for her son Reagan Penn to assist her.
Penn was finally arrested and informed to keep away from his mom for the subsequent 48 hours, however Shin claims he returned to the house and she or he introduced video proof as proof to police, which led to Penn’s second arrest in as many days.
“I consider my son [B.J. Penn] is affected by Capgras delusional syndrome (a psychiatric dysfunction wherein an individual holds a delusion {that a} pal, partner, mum or dad, different shut member of the family has been changed by an similar imposter),” Shin informed police when submitting for the restraining order. “He believes I’m an imposter who has killed his household to realize management of the household belongings.
“In the most effective curiosity for my security, I ask the court docket for a six month [temporary restraining order] and have my son ordered to get medical remedy or different supply of remedy.”
Penn has repeatedly made troubling posts on social media claiming his household is lifeless and so they have all been changed with imposters. He additionally posted a video displaying his preliminary arrest by police this previous Sunday.
Broadly thought of one of many biggest fighters of all time, Penn final fought within the UFC in 2019 and he stays a part of a small group of athletes to carry belts in two totally different divisions after he conquered each the welterweight and light-weight titles throughout his profession.
