Paedophile taking his kid to sports at weekend

This. It’s not just a question of keeping kids safe when they’re sexually attracted them, it’s the thought of what they’re thinking when they’re around them and looking at them.

I would keep mine away from known sex offenders of any kind and I wouldn’t apologise for it or my feelings towards these repulsive monsters.

Safeguarding is EVERYONE’s business- at the very least report what you know to the safeguarding lead of the club.
Most clubs are run by volunteers- they don’t really know what to do with genuine safeguarding issues - so highlight it and let them get guidance from their governing body.

It’s a disease. He’s sexually attracted to children, it’s doesn’t go anway and I wouldn’t have a pervert like that anywhere near my kids. Tell the other parents now.

I've not rtft, but is he unsupervised with his child? If so, this really needs to be reported to children's social care. They may have assessed the family already and determined he can have unsupervised time with his child, but often such an assessment would result in a recommendation of no unsupervised contact (which of course isn't always adhered to).

Yes. The one that I mentioned offended when he was about 20. Imprisoned for a brief period. Released. "Rehabilitated".

He was sent back to prison in his 60 for offences committed in middle age. Then sentenced again for other offences.

I am so sorry.

Agreed.

One known to me was supposedly rehabilitated. He had 'done his time'. Most who knew of this kept their distance from him, but others insisted he'd changed.

He died in prison - someone came forward about historical offences. Once he was safely locked up, even more recent offences came to light.

Reading between the lines of the news reports and local knowledge, his stepchildren and and a child born to one of them were victims.

I think there's no doubt about it that OP will have informed the school, postman & all the neighbours by now. And everyone in the pub

In America a 18 year old got 60 years for a 14 year old. Was mutual, no rape as such (in law of course it is but he didn't force himself) yeah 60 years.
It's quite possible

I think you have an obligation to at least inform the school and sports team, how would you feel if you found this out years later after your child had been to their house and that other people knew and said nothing. This wasn't an older teenager and a young girlfriend, this was sick child abuse online and I dont think pedophiles like that change

With around 4 to 5000 child sex offence convictions a year in UK there will be another 100000 convicted since him. These are the ones that have been caught. So we are surrounded by them and at least you know in this case. Usually we don't know of convictions or they haven't even been caught and or convicted. So we have to implement our own safeguards and ensure all clubs do the same. Singling out someone convicted 20 years ago who hasn't shown any safeguarding concerns, other than his conviction, isn't the way to go. Don't let focus on him distract you from ensuring safeguarding at all times at the club.

Depending on the crime they will not always stay on a register, OP would have to apply through Sarah's law to find out. In fact she should do that.
If he's no longer registered he's no longer thought to be a risk.

Do you know the details do you? Is he still on the sex register for example? They don't, as other posters have said, all stay on the register forever. How old was he when he did this crime? What was it? How old was the child? 3, 7, 15?
It does matter. Locking people up & throwing away the key isn't the answer.
Some have said they have known about people who they have grown up around & later found to be child abusers. They were everywhere in the 70's , people often knew. If you grow up like that then you learn that you simply cannot trust anyone. All that has happened here is that you know about this man. But there are more that you don't know about & so you need to be concerned about those, the people who you don't suspect.
Just be aware. It's the only way IMO.
Good luck

Sooo much misinformation on this thread.

Registered Sex Offenders CAN have contact with children and often won't be on the Register for more than 10 years. Licence conditions and SHPOs are different.

Reconviction rates for sex offenders are low, that doesn't mean reoffending rates are low - very different things.

Child Sex Offenders are not mostly psychopaths as one PP suggested. They are often indistinguishable from the rest of us and hold down jobs, relationships and hobbies.

"Making illegal images" is the same as downloading them, they aren't taking the pictures themselves. Although obviously not OK it's very much non-contact.

I know someone who did time for having sex with a 15 year old (they were 22) BUT had met her in a bar that she used a fake id to get in and she told him she was older. Her mum found out and he ended up in jail. I knew the girl, she looked wayyy older and openly said she told him she was older.

And if that happened I wouldn't want him anywhere near any children, including his own.

It’s nothing to do with the law (which I am fully aware of, I can assure you).

I take issue morally with the “I know what he did was bad but at least…” sentiment that’s been posted on here. The OP isn’t concerned regarding his legal punishment, his sentence length or whether it was fair; she’s concerned about an ongoing risk from his presence around a group of kids.

Believe what you want in terms of what another person would or would not do, that’s of no relevance here. People will say they’d kill him, that they’d print posters or put his crime on the local FB page, that a mob should hound him to suicide. That’s all a different point; my point is that the minimising of his actions is wrong.

You're name-calling yourself, telling posters that they should be ashamed... for what exactly? Knowing and understanding the law? Disliking it as much as you do but accepting the legal limitations and remedies?

You don't sound enlightened or knowledgeable, just needlessly strident and impotent because you're berating posters who have no more power than you to effect a change. Puffery and limp ideas of what you'd supposedly do to a paedophile are pathetic unless you want a criminal record yourself. I don't believe half of the posters who say they'd do this and do that. They wouldn't and neither would you.

Most of us are mothers, we don't need a lecture about paedophiles thanks.

Sensible advice. I think this is as much as you can do.

Me too , and I wonder what kind of mother this child had that accepts a pedophile to be a father to her children . Can’t be anyone with good sense

You sound like just the sort of person to gossip tbf

Paedos are generally psychopaths and psychopaths can't be cured - they are wired in a totally different way that means their operating system is to be an intra-species predator. Rehabilitating a psychopathic paedo not to prey on children is like trying to rehabilitate a cat to not seek out/eat meat. Recommend reading about psychopaths - they're nervous systems are different and they just use everyone around them all the time for anything and everything. I'll have psychopaths as fringe friends, but not more than that.

The other thing it could be is being caught in a cycle of abuse. In that case I believe it's possible to rehabilitate, but not 100% sure - have not really read up on this in depth.

Don't think I could be friends with a known paedo though with kids in the equation - not worth the risk. To OP - check out what safeguarding is in place, educate your child, I think that's really all you can do.

What are you on about? Whether someone has an idea over what to do with a known paedophile has nothing to do with people minimising what they did because they didn’t lay a hand on a child physically.

Do you realise it’s possible to not know the perfect remedy for the OP, but also not behave like what he did wasn’t actually that bad?

You’re quite mouthy online, aren’t you? I’m sure you’d definitely ask if someone was slow of thinking in real life.

So what is it that you're proposing to actually do? What effective and laudable remedy are you proposing?

Or are you just another blowhard that is slow of thinking but with plenty of nothing to say?

I just have so much sympathy for his child. They are stuck with this now, it will affect them forever because people will avoid them due to what their father is.