Throughout their relationship over the years, Ioan (Ionuc) Retegan fought fervently to split his son, Jacob, up from Abigail. He succeeded in doing so numerous times. Shown below is evidence of messages that he sent to Jacob warning and telling him that he hopes he is not getting involved with Abigail once again. Just a few days after this message, he visited Jacob at work one evening and manipulated him until Jacob caved and agreed to once again break off the couples’ relationship.
Ionuc and Dana fought over the years to push Jacob into a relationship with the daughter of one of Ionuc’s good friends from out of state, Grace Luța, Iosif Luța’s daughter. Despite Jacob stating several times that he was not interested in her romantically, they continued to push. On one particular occasion, Jacob went to visit Abigail’s family and have dinner with them, on Valentine’s Day. Upon arriving at their house, he unfortunately informed them that just that morning, his mother, Daniela Retegan, had paid for and mailed a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates to Grace with Jacob‘s name signed as the sender.
In spite of his parent’s efforts, the couple reunited in 2019, but were forced to keep their communication hidden, conversing via telephone or text message to avoid further heartache and meddling from Ioan (Ionuc) Retegan, and his wife, Daniela (Dana) Retegan.
Their opposition of Abigail and Jacob’s relationship only grew stronger, and their actions grew that much more wicked, after Jacob and Abigail were engaged in December of 2019, and Jacob disclosed this to them.
Over the course of the next few months as they planned their wedding, Ioan (Ionuc) Retegan committed various egregious acts against the couple to prevent the wedding from taking place. This included announcing to the entire community, and his new congregation, Bethel Romanian Pentecostal Church, that the couple is disinviting everyone from their wedding, when they had not done so. After the wedding, the couple also discovered that he had made several phone calls to family and friends that they had invited to the wedding, and disinvited them on the couples’ behalf, without their knowledge. Audio of his announcement to Bethel Romanian Church where he alleges the couple has asked that the church not attend the wedding any longer, as well as implies that Ovidiu Teodorescu influenced them in this direction, is featured below.
Ioan (Ionuc) Retegan made this announcement because the couple expressed that they would not be allowing him to officiate the wedding, due to the year’s of sinister crimes he had committed against them. The couple, instead, asked Ovidiu Teodorescu if he would officiate their wedding, however, Ovidiu advised them that it would be best to enjoy their big day and choose a neutral party. He knew his officiation of their ceremony would not be received well by the community, as Ioan (Ionuc) Retegan had slandered Ovidiu’s name over the years with everything that had taken place in Nampa. The couple contacted Teo Costea (from Arizona) requesting that he officiate their wedding ceremony, to which Teo Costea obliged.
Jacob and Abigail chose to keep confidential who they had chosen as the minister for their wedding day, as they knew that Ionuc would more than likely try to put a stop to whoever was appointed the task. Jacob, believing it was too late for his father to do anything further about the situation, revealed to his father the evening before the wedding day that Teo Costea would be presiding over the ceremony. Ionuc immediately called Cornel Avraam, the head pastor presiding over Teo Costea’s home church in Arizona, and attempted to use his influence to stop Teo Costea from completing the task he had accepted.
The day of the wedding, Ioan (Ionuc) Retegan pulled aside the officiating minister, and implied to him that the couple had had sexual relations prior to marriage, a mere five minutes before the ceremony was supposed to start. Teo Costea, went directly to the couple and asked them before the Lord if the allegations were true, relaying it was Jacob’s father that had just informed him of this. The couple explained that they were not. To which the minister, Teo Costea, revealed he knew the allegations were NOT true because the Lord had revealed the truth to him. However, he explained to the couple, so that man cannot say that he did not do his due diligence, he had to question the couple about the allegations Ionuc Retegan had made.
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