Prime Chef star Eric Adjepong’s 7-year-old daughter, Lennox, was granted a protecting order towards him amid abuse claims.
In keeping with courtroom data seen by Us on Thursday, July 23, Adjepong, 38, was ordered by a Maryland courtroom to not abuse, contact and enter the residence the place Lennox resides. Adjepong, who shares Lennox with ex Janelle Davis-Mack, was additionally ordered to steer clear of his daughter’s faculty and little one care suppliers in addition to give up his firearms.
The protecting order was granted for one yr.
The Washington Put up reported that the choose dominated that “there’s a preponderance of the proof to imagine” Adjepong bodily abused his daughter. Adjepong can be allowed to see his daughter however solely by way of supervised visits. He additionally should full parenting lessons and reunification remedy with Lennox.
Adjepong addressed the courtroom’s ruling in a press release shared by way of social media on Thursday.
“The previous a number of weeks have been among the many most tough of my life,” the prolonged Instagram assertion started. “I’ve remained silent not as a result of I lacked a response, however as a result of I imagine integrity is measured by the way you conduct your self when your character is being questioned.”
The chef continued, “Others can select rhetoric. I’ll select reality. Others can search public opinion. I’ll proceed to put my religion in God, honor the Courtroom, and let my character converse for itself, because it all the time has all through my life. My religion has taught me that reality doesn’t must be loud to endure. As a father, my duty has by no means modified. As a person, neither have my values.”
Adjepong added that his “foremost precedence will all the time be” Lennox and he denied the abuse allegations.
“I dearly love her, and as her first line of protection, I’m right here to encourage and shield her, and would by no means weaponize or abuse her, full cease,” he wrote. “I’ll proceed to guard her privateness, innocence and respect the authorized course of, and belief that reality, my character and time reveal what headlines can not.”
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The Meals Community star’s assertion ended with a message of gratitude for his authorized crew and to those that have remained by his aspect.
“To everybody who has prayed for me, inspired me, and stood beside me by this season, thanks,” he shared. “I ask that you just proceed to maintain my daughter and my household in your prayers.”
Adjepong rose to fame after competing on Prime Chef: Kentucky season 16, the place he was a finalist. He went on to take part in Prime Chef: All-Stars L.A and extra Meals Community exhibits together with Man Fieri’s Event of Champions. In 2022, Adjepong grew to become Alex Guarnaschelli’s cohost on Alex vs. America for its fifth season.
