90 Day Fiance couple Karine Martins and Paul Staehle have welcomed their second child into the world.
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Karine gave birth to another son, Ethan, on Friday, February 5.
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Paul announced the news Friday on Instagram by sharing a 10-minute video of his baby boy. Karine was briefly featured in the video resting and recovering after Ethan's arrival.
"Born healthy and very fast," Paul captioned the Instagram video.
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Paul and Karine, who have been married for over three years, are already parents of a son Pierre, who was born in Brazil in March 2019 and turns two years old next month.
In November 2020, Paul and Karine were living in Brazil and Paul disclosed Ethan's February 2021 due date.
"Karine's green card was stolen and the embassy is closed because of COVID-19 so we will be here indefinitely until we can get her a boarding foil, hopefully before her green card expires," Paul explained on Instagram at the time. "It is highly likely Ethan will be born in Brazil."
Paul also suggested he and Karine were in a better place financially or at least on their way to being more secure.
"Karine inherited a farm in Tonantins. We will hopefully be able to start growing something and make it a working farm. Most of my income comes from the Internet while I am in Brazil," Paul explained.
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He added at the time, "Karine's family has been a God-send and been helping me with Karine."
Paul updated fans on his whereabouts after getting back together with Karine following a tumultuous and dramatic summer in which they had split up and both filed -- but later dropped -- restraining orders against each other.
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After getting married in Fall 2017, Karine threatened to divorce Paul nearly a handful of times, but the couple reached a breaking point in July 2020 when they both accused each other of assault and abuse and filed emergency protective orders following an explosive argument with police involvement.
However, speculation surfaced in late September Paul and Karine might have gotten back together after the pair dismissed three protective orders against each other on September 16, Us Weekly reported.
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Paul and Karine, however, did not participate in the Tell-All special for 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s fifth season, which aired in early October 2020, because the event was filmed before Karine and Paul apparently buried the hatchet and dropped their protective orders against each other.
Paul from Louisville, KY, and Karine from Tonantins, Brazil, first appeared on Seasons 1 and 2 of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days, followed by Season 1 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way and the latest edition of 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?.
When Paul and Karine had their explosive fight in July of last year, Paul said he wanted to file for full custody of Pierre after Karine allegedly cheated on him and violated a Child Protective Services case against her.
Paul also claimed Karine had gone "missing" with Pierre while he was in the hospital being treated for a STD. He seemed to blame the alleged STD on Karine for allegedly cheating on him after she arrived in Kentucky.
Paul and Karine's fight resulted in them both filing restraining orders against each other.
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"I previously found glass in my food," Paul alleged in court documents obtained by Us. "I found similar glass shards from an item she broke."
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Paul also alleged that Karine's friends were calling him with death threats and Karine had allowed Pierre to "run in the street [and] get into the chemical cabinets."
"I fear for my wife's safety and mental well-being. I fear for my son's safety," Paul concluded.
And Karine publicly confirmed in early August 2020 that she had left Paul and obtained an emergency protective order against him.
Karine said she never went "missing" but needed to be "rescued from an environment" that was no longer healthy for her and her child. She added on Instagram, "Relationships are hard and sometimes it just can't be fixed anymore."
Karine's protective order included an array of shocking claims -- including that Paul had physically assaulted her, sexually assaulted her, monitored her phone, and prevented her doctor from prescribing birth control to her.
In the emergency protection order application Paul had shared on social media, Karine claimed Paul "forcefully rapes me" and "hold[s] my Green Card and all my documents."
"On multiples occasions in the past 3 weeks the respondent pushed me, grab my breast squ[ee]zing and twisting, hurting me, pushing me to the floor, covering my mouth. He force his penis into my mouth and forcefully rapes me. If I refuse he throws things, he yells, or he threat[ens] to call police," Karine wrote in the handwritten two-page application.
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Among other accusations, Karine wrote that Paul threatened to take Pierre away if she tried to leave and forced her to drink alcohol while pregnant so she would calm down.
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Karine continued, with the help of a language translator, "He is constantly on social media making videos of me against my will saying I am crazy, saying I have mental illness. Recently he called [Child Protective Services] and told [them] I was always drunk, aggressive, and abusive to him."
"He post on social media [that] I have [cheated with] several [men] even knowing that he [has] cameras around the house and I can't leave. I have no access to money for my son or myself."
According to her application, Karine said she was "terrified" Paul and his mother Mary might hurt her or their son, regardless of whether she flew back to Brazil with Pierre.
Paul took to his Instagram Stories on August 10 to shoot down the claims Karine had made in her protective order filing.
"It truley [sic] breaks my heart it has come to this. I have bent over backwards. I found work. Got a new home. A new car. Let her buy anything she wanted. I did the cooking, cleaning, laundry and took care of Pierre," Paul wrote in his Instagram Stories.
"I have never in my life physically or sexually assaulted anyone."
Paul said he was trying to get Karine "mental help" and had to "double up" on his own therapy sessions to "cope" with the "madness" of his relationship.
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"Her motion against me with false allegations is for a 3 year restraining order against me and both my children. Alimony and child support. But I can not see her or my children at all," Paul shared.
Paul subsequently took a break from social media in August 2020 but returned after three weeks of silence to reveal he was in Brazil cleaning and organizing their home while Karine was in Indiana.
"My life revolved around them. I have not seen my son since July.... I will not see my sons for a very long time," Paul said.
"So I am keeping busy and constructive. Karine is not in Brazil. I knew that when I traveled here. Now my mother is having a mental breakdown because she is also forbidden to see Pierre. I have lost my sons."
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Paul confirmed Karine is pregnant with a boy at the time because he wrote "sons" multiple times and also noted, "I have to accept the fact I will probably never see my wife and son again. Or see the birth or ever see my unborn child."
90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After?'s fifth season ended with Paul and Karine agreeing to take a trip to Brazil together so Karine could visit her family.
Karine said her relationship with Paul was under a lot of pressure in the United States and so a trip to Brazil would be good for their relationship.
Karine noted at the time she would "think" about returning to America after spending some time in Brazil, but Paul feared Karine would never want to come back to the United States with him.
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