Girls ordered to visit sex offender dad
`Please don't tell dad."
Caroline Overington
The Australian
March 15, 2010
THE Family Court has ordered two young girls to spend alternate weekends with their father, a registered child sex offender, provided he puts a door on their bedroom that they can lock.
Judge Robert Benjamin, in the court's Hobart branch, ruled that the girls "need some protection from (their father), particularly at night", but said the risk of sexual abuse was "diminished when they are awake and alert, and when the children are together".
He said the father must have an "adult friend" stay with him when the girls stay overnight and, until the youngest daughter is 14, the girls must "share the same room so they can have the mutual support of one another".
A Family Court counsellor said the girls, 10 and eight, "are at an age and maturity when awake, dressed and together it would be unlikely the father would act inappropriately toward them".
"However, at night, when they were asleep or partly asleep and not aware of each other's whereabouts, they would be less secure."
The case has outraged women's groups, who say it puts the girls at risk to satisfy the father's desire to see them. The oldest girl, who has just turned 10, sobbed to counsellors that she was afraid to stay overnight with her father.
The father was convicted in 2007 of three child pornography offences, including filming images of child pornography on his computer. He also created links and shortcuts to child porn sites.
In sentencing the man for the offences, a judge in Tasmania said he was "far from convinced" he posed no risk to children and put his name on the Sexual Offenders Register for five years.
His wife left him, and has since been fighting to restrict his access to their two daughters.
In a decision known as Robins and Ruddock, the Family Court found the father had invited one of the girls into his bed, and had "demonstrated affection toward her in a way that was, in all the circumstances, inappropriate for a child of that age".
The eldest girl told counsellors she "did not want to spend time alone with her father" and kept repeating: `Please don't tell dad."
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