Hi there,

My Dad was rearrested recently, for sexual content online involving children. He was originally arrested a few years ago and felt genuinely remorseful of his actions. I have young children of a similar age, to those that he was contacting online. Since the first time, I've had limited contact with him, but have allowed him to visit my children supervised. So that he can have some sort of relationship with them. Then came the bombshell that he had reoffended. I wasn't overly comfortable with him seeing my children after the first time, but the remorse he showed and the way he was striving to be better, made me give him a chance. I feel completely let down. The reoffence is even worse than the original one. I have yet to speak to him since, I don't know how I am going to approach it. I know already, that I am going to stop all contact with my children. He's lost that privilege. But I'm petrified of all this getting out in the media, he got lucky the first time. If it does get out, I know that people will naturally look at me in a different light, even though I'm completely innocent and done nothing wrong. It's completely humiliating.



How have other people approached this. Should I stop all contact with him? I feel obliged to have some sort of contact with him, as unfortunately he's the only parent I have left but at the same time, he's done nothing but let me down.
How have people been treated by friends, family and public when things like this get into the public domain.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks