A judge on Wednesday ordered the father of Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu to stay away from his  teen-age daughter and have no communication with her for a year.

                        State District Judge John Montgomery, in issuing the protective order against Dumitru Moceanu, said evidence showed there was a history of domestic violence in the Moceanu home and there was a likely chance of it in the future.

                        "I'm sure there is a lot of love, deep down," the judge said. "Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall. We need to put him back together again."

                        Under the order, Dumitru Moceanu cannot come within 500 feet of his daughter's residence, school or her training  facility. He is forbidden from communicating with his daughter except in writing. The judge also told Moceanu  that her father is in violation of the order if she initiates communication or a meeting. If her father violates the order, he will be arrested.

                        Her mother, Camelia Moceanu, is not included in the order. The parents' attorney, Katherine Scardino, is appealing the ruling.

                        The young gymnast wept as she described her relationship  with her father to the judge. She said that at times, his ctions scared her. On one occasion, she said her father ordered her onto the scales and slapped her in the face when he saw that she had gained some weight.

                        "He scares me. He intimidates me. You don't hit your child  for gaining weight," she said.

                        Neither father nor daughter made eye contact with each other during Wednesday's hearing. Occasionally, Moceanu rolled her eyes incredulously during her father's testimony.

                        After Montgomery's ruling, Moceanu cried and embraced her lawyer and her high school friends. This was not a victory, however, that she was celebrating.

                        "The decision is very sad," she said. "It's been extremely  tough on me. But now I can move forward."

                        Moceanu was optimistic that the ruling might lead to  happier times.

                        "Hopefully, my family might get back together. Maybe it has taught him a lesson," she said.

                        Moceanu had gone to court Nov. 30 to get a temporary protective order, which prohibited her father from contacting her and being around her. She sought the court's protection after Houston police homicide detectives went to her apartment and told her about an alleged plot by her father to have friend Brian Huggins, 32, and her coach Luminita Miscenco, 26, killed. Although allegations of Dumitru Moceanu's involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme are still under investigation, no criminal charges have been filed.

                        Huggins also was successful in getting a protection order against Dumitru Moceanu on Wednesday.

                        The gymnast's attorney tried to introduce into evidence tape recordings allegedly between Dumitru Moceanu and a private investigator in which the father tried to hire  someone to kill Huggins and Miscenco. Montgomery reviewed the tapes in his chambers but did not admit them into evidence.

                        But a source who has heard the tapes told the Houston Chronicle that Dumitru Moceanu met with a private  investigator to find out where his daughter lived. He then met again to allegedly solicit his help to "get rid of"  Huggins and the coach. The investigator taped these alleged conversations.

                        The source said that on the tape the investigator asked Dumitru Moceanu what he wanted him to do with the bodies. Also, the father allegedly said on the tape that he wanted it to look like an accident, and then wondered whether Huggins could be drugged.

                        The source said that the tape featured two men specifically talking about "getting rid" of Huggins, and doing it after  Nov. 20. The cost was to be $10,000, but the investigator  told the father that he could get the plan rolling for $5,000,  the source said.

                        On the stand, Moceanu's attorney, Ellen Yarrell, asked the father about the alleged murder-for-hire scheme. He did not answer the questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself.

                        But, Moceanu talked in detail about what Houston homicide detectives told her about the
investigation. Although her father denies those allegations, Moceanu said she thought her father was capable of doing that, that she was scared of him and even feared she was in danger.

                        She told the judge that she saw him waiting for her outside  her school and had followed her once.

                        During cross-examination by Scardino, Moceanu said she ent on an extended vacation with Huggins, a married man and father, after police detectives told her about the murder plot. She denied there is a romantic relationship with Huggins.

                        From the witness stand, Dumitru Moceanu said he would ever hurt his daughter and was only concerned about her, like any parent.

                        He said he waited to see her at school to see how she was doing.

                        "I see nothing wrong with that. I am her father. We are her parents. Nobody is concerned as much as us."

                        He acknowledged that he asked a private investigator to find her address for him, but denied that he had the investigator follow her. Testimony showed that to prove to Huggins that he knew where she lived, he signed a $5 bill and sent it with flowers to her apartment.

                        Dumitru Moceanu said all along he has feared that the people around her, like Huggins, were influencing her to take these court actions.

                        After the ruling, the father appeared stunned, not saying much to his wife or those around him. Scardino said that he and his wife are devastated by the ruling.

                        Scardino said she is convinced there was no domestic violence in the home, and that the judge made the wrong decision.

                        "Dumitru cannot believe that his daughter has turned her back," she said. "She wouldn't even talk to them today."

                        Moceanu took her first court action against her father Oct. 28 when she legally was declared an adult, freeing her to take over her own business interest. The gymnast said she took the action to protect her finances from her father, whom she accused of squandering millions she earned in the past few years.