Should a reoffending child sex offender see their child supervised?

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What would you do if you were the mum and this was the father of your children? Would you allow supervised contact (in a contact centre or supervised by a friend/family member)? If so, how often and for how long? Or would you stop contact altogether? What do you think would be better for your children?

Man got in trouble with the police once but reoffended a year and a half later. He's on the sex registry after possession of indecent images of children. Children featured in the pictures are 1 to 17 years old. So the whole range of childhood.
Your kids are toddlers.
He blames porn addiction and says he'd never harm a child in real life.

What would you do?
And why?

Thank you

I wouldn't want any contact. Ever.

No no no no no never no way nuh uh why are you even asking ?

I'd fight it tooth and nail tbh. Let him take you to court for contact

No.

No contact. Ever. He’s a predator.

I would move to the other side of the world if I ensured he never had contact with my children.

No no a thousand times no

Realistically, would court allow no contact if he were to apply for access?

Who cares… he’s a sex offender to children.

I think of all the reasons to prevent contact, the courts would agree this is pretty high up there.

Not a legal person btw

No contact at all. Wouldn’t care what any judge ruled I’d moved to the other side of the world to protect my children from a peadophile, father or no father!

This.

No contact at all, not even supervised.

Nope, I wouldn't be allowing contact, especially at this young age. Whilst of course contact being supervised prevents the child being sexually assaulted it does not necessarily prevent clever grooming of the child. Let him take you to court and they can make recommendations but I think given offences and young age of the children and lack of existing relationship I would be surprised if they recommended direct contact.

It's not a case of what would you do......more a case of what the agencies involved would say...no?

This this this. Would change names and move towns

Any mother who would facilitate her child having contact with scum like that should have her children removed for inability to safeguard them.

They are asking me for what I would like but I haven't told them yet

How old are your children?

There is a lack of knowledge on this thread, whilst personally I would fight it at every step. There are lots of registered sex offenders who do have court awarded access to their children, supervised either in a contact centre or by family members. Contact sex offenders as well as images/incitement/online offences.

Say no. Force him to go to court. Your case is that he is minimising the harm he caused; they were real children in the photos he used, so children were harmed by his actions.

Did he get a custodial sentence?

A swift no is my answer.
Sex offenders are some of the most devious, manipulative, twisted, gaslighting people you’ll EVER meet.
Supervised contact will, I guarantee, eventually become unsupervised. It seems to me that the very people put in place to uphold children’s safety and the laws that protect them will just as quickly bend those laws, soften boundaries, and give inches that turn into miles to the offender/abuser.
You must safeguard your child all the way. It starts with you. NOBODY else will do this. Don’t cave at all to this sex offender playing at parenthood. His PR should be revoked! Why is supervised contact even a discussion?

The man who views images of children being violated has no right to consider himself a parent, a role that comes with the highest level of protection and responsibility.

Tell them no contact, he had persistently offended and you don't believe restrictive/prohibitive measures are effective in managing his risk because he disregard them. He has also been repeatedly dishonest regarding his sexual behaviours (assuming he doesn't willing discuss his activities and has had to be caught) and you are concerned about the impact this type of behaviour can have on your children, also invoice any evidence of manipulation etc.

Courts are likely to order the contact as it's the children's rights to a relationship with both parents

Courts rarely order no contact

Is there any way he could get unsupervised contact?