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The shared children of disgraced Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts and her ex-husband allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of the ex-leader’s former lover – who later wound up dead, according to court records exclusively reviewed by The Post. The disturbing docs reveal Roberts’ ex-husband, Duncan Clanton, went as far as filing a civil restraining order to keep the former couple’s two adolescent children away from local pipeliner William Andrew Cronce – a man he claimed had alcoholic, suicidal and “stalky” tendencies during his alleged on-and-off again relationship with Roberts. “I am fearful for my children’s safety because William Andrew Cronce does have access to weapons/handguns, he is bold enough to publicly voice/threaten suicide and has shown stalking behavior with the mother of my children,” Clanton wrote in a Jan.24, 2024, letter pleading with a Beauregard Parish court judge to grant the protection order on behalf of his daughter, then 10 years old, and son, 13. In one particularly troubling example of Cronce’s “instability,” during an argument with Roberts, the laborer allegedly “exited the house by loudly shouting in front of [the kids] that their Mother needs to learn to shut her ‘c—k sucker’, if she knows what’s good for her,” Clanton claimed, explaining that his son had told him about the incident. Cronce had also posted on Facebook threatening suicide following a breakup from Roberts – and was later found by police “incapacitated and unconscious with a gun on his person,” the ex-husband further alleged. “If he is brave enough to take his own life, what is to stop him from shooting Misty, our kids and himself?” Clanton wrote. Despite Cronce allegedly “stalking” Roberts by taking pictures of Roberts’ home and vehicle and sending them to her while they were broken up, she took him back in, according to Clanton. The father filed the last ditch effort after his ex-wife flagrantly ignored his repeate...