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Originally Posted by AtLast
When I worked in foster care supervised visits were never at the home. The parent came to a visitation site and interacted with their kids and there was always a therapist or social worker in the room for the duration of the visit. Also, other people working in the office were present. Sometimes, when the kids were going to be re-united with a parent within a time frame, visits took place at somewhere like a McDonalds or public park. Again, the entire time was supervised.
I was totally taken back by any such visitation with a parent that was a suspect in the murder of the kid's mother and had just been ordered (week before) to take a polygraph and have a psychiatric evaluation! That is just nuts! The police had also just found child porn on the guys computer and these kids had dropped hints to their grandparents about their mother being in the trunk of a car! What the hell was going on with this judge? I don't think that this guy should have had access (supervised or otherwise0 at this point- certainly not until the evaluations were done and reported to the court.
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I saw on 20/20 (or Dateline?) the other night that at first the visits were at a supervised visitation center. He progressed to visits in his own home. But yes, I agree with you that it is insane that he was allowed to see them at home with all the questions about him on the table.
As an aside, my understanding is that what they found on his computer was computer generated depictions of incestuous parent/child relations...not real images.