An Australian family court judge has ruled that two young girls must visit with their registered sex offender father every other weekend.

 But Judge Robert Benjamin, of the Family Court's Holbart branch, also put rules into place. Among those rules:

         The daughters must sleep together in a shared room, with the door locked at night.

          An "adult friend'' must stay in the home when the girls - ages 8 and 10 - spend the night.

 According to the Australian, Benjamin ruled that the girls "needed some protection from (their father), particularly at night.'' However, the risk of sexual abuse was "diminished when they (the girls) are awake and alert.''

 The unidentified father was convicted in 2007 of three child pornography offenses, 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. 

 The Family Court, the newspaper reported, 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".

 His wife left him, and has since been fighting to restrict his access to their two daughters. 

Patti Martin, JerseyShore.MomsLikeMe.com site manager 

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