What To Do? My Daughter’s Best Friend’s Dad Is A Sex Offender

Dear Tee, I recently found out that my daughter’s best friend‘s dad is a sex offender and that he is violent. This is the back story. I and my family moved to a new house and we have a father and daughter of my child’s age living in the next house alongside a live-in older woman nanny.

We were happy that our daughter would have a play partner and they clicked almost immediately. For weeks, their friendship blossomed and they were doing sleepovers at my house sometimes and at her friend’s houses too. However, we noticed, that the other neighbours were gossiping.

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And I summoned the courage to ask what was going on. I asked our other neighbour who had no child and she blatantly told me I was messing around with my daughter’s life. Apparently,  her best friend’s dad is a sex offender and not so many years had passed since the incident.

He slept with a 15 year old when he was 27 at the time. And I don’t know what to do with his daughter’s friendship with mine. I just want advice on what to tell her about why she can’t go over to their house anymore. Nothing has happened to her by the way she’s been briefed on things to watch out for and tell us numerous times and we’ve asked her since finding out this information.

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I know its not her friends fault that her father is a sex offender and I obviously can’t tell her what happened and why I want to separate them. But my priority is my daughter because she spends every day she can with this friend. He also has a domestic violence charge from this year and is separated from his wife. That makes me quite uncomfortable.

What I am thinking is to either pull the plug on the relationship because of her friend’s sex offender father or make my home more inviting and take the girls out to parks and things to get them to want to come to our place more often. I also have been thinking it’s better not to give her details to protect their friendship and her friend’s reputation at school.