My guess is that if your husband is on the registry.. Yes your children can be taken from you.

Here is a link to S.O. laws for Indiana: http://www.klaaskids.org/st-ind.htm. In WA State, (I know it's not Indiana), your husband would be expected NOT to be in contact with anyone who fell into his victim demographic, i.e. no kids. If he has indeed gone through treatment ("all the classes"), he knows this. If he is choosing to be in close proximity to your children, he is well on his way to legal problems. If, as you say, he's' taken all the classes' he knows the risk he poses to your children, yet he is comfortable with that risk. Why?

As to your situation: knowing that this individual is a registered sex offender, and allowing him to have access to your children puts you in dire risk if he re-offends. Call child welfare, anonymously, and ask about this. Call the Dept. of Corrections, again anonymously, and ask the very question you pose in your post. This is a critical situation for your children, yourself and your husband.

If it was me I would aske for some advice from a lawyer.

It depends on the state and his stipulations and what not. Personally, I would call a lawyer...even if you have to spend some money to get your question answered
No offense to previous posters, but I wouldn't trust CPS as far as I could throw them. they are most likely to tell you whatever they feel like, depending on the day of the week, phase of the moon, month, and year of the Chinese Zodiac, if you get my drift.
Once you get your answer from a reliable source, if it's not one you like, see if there are things you can do...some places might stipulate that your kids not be alone in his company, or want him to take extra classes, or for you to take chaperone classes etc.
Good Luck!

I agree with faeredark - I would contact a lawyer - and your husband really needs to be careful and protect himself . if the bio dad starts some accusations - your husband will lose for sure. On the other side of things there are some SO that can be in contact with children after a certain amount of time but again this is pretty rare.

I have several questions. How old are your children? How would you feel if he molested one of them? Why would you put your children at risk, even if it were a slight risk?

Baileygirl things are not always that black and white.

Please get some advice from a lawyer hsbower on this.

No such as life, they are that black and white. I was not trying to make her feel bad or to shame her. Those are honest questions which I hope she can answer for herself. You see my family, even my parents understood that my grand father was a child molester, yet they felt he was"safe" after going through treatment. He molested again and those parents are living with such guilt. The choices they made have had long and far reaching consequences, so I understand why you may not like my questions, but they are fair questions.

What about her happyness? Dos that not come into it? Don't get me wrong iam sorry what happened to you your family should of been more carfull.
Tell me would you like to see a family broken up? How would you explain that to kids?
So no its not black and white.

Oh no I do think her happiness comes into it. Most certainly I do. I have so much compassion for this woman. I don't want to see families broken up at all. But, honestly, if she doesn't ask her self these questions and come to answers she can live with then how happy would she be in the future? How much happiness would she have if she allowed someone into her life and they hurt her children? How would she explain to the kids why she allowed someone in their life who she knew had a history of abusing children?

My family should have been more careful. They should have asked the hard questions of themselves....just as I am asking this woman to do. I wish you could speak to my mother and father. I wish you could have seen the look on their face when the day came that I asked them why? Why they didn't keep him away from me when they knew what he had done to others. I assure you, no reason was good enough for them. I have forgiven my parents and love them with all of my heart. However, they have never forgiven themselves and it has cost them dearly.

It really is that black and white.

Really? Yeah right.
Nothing is black and white it must be nice to live in your world.

Such,

I really wasn't trying to upset you and I am sorry if I did. It's not about living in a nice world and for the record, my world is most likely as confused and messed up as most peoples. I have a different perspective on protecting children because I was not protected. My parents have a different perspective today then they did when I was a child. Please believe me, I am not trying to goad you, upset your or anything like that. I just simply don't see how it can not be that black and white when it comes to the safety of a child.

I have to agree things aren't black and white, each situation is different.
Too many families are torn apart. there is not enough support from society towards healing and working on family relations.
Does that mean that every family can be healed, or every ex-offender trusted, of course not, but measures can and should be taken towards healing if possible, including at least limited contact even if supervised
Too often I read of children not allowed around a parent, even when the child was not a victim and not even in the "right"demographic(if you will) Even if said parent would incarcerated for years. Come on now, to say tha's overkill is putting it mildly

This may be one of those areas we have to agree to disagree Dark. I respect your opinion, but disagree with it. As a parent, I would want to ask myself those hard questions and not ever put my children knowingly at risk. It is that black and white for me.

I most certainly do feel for children who can not have a relationship with their parent because they are a SO. I understand your point about them being the wrong "demographic" and the parent having been incarcerated for years. But, we keep loosing sight of the fact that if the person in question is guilty, then we must recognize the fact that there is a chance they will re-offend. Even if it is only a 5% chance of recidivism, I wouldn't be willing to take that chance with my children or my grand children.

Would I choose my children's safety over my happiness? Yes. For me that is the question and it is black and white.

Bailey, yes we will have to agree to disagree, because I see no harm in letters and pictures, or phone calls s to a parent in prison and I feel hat as long as proper precautions are taken, then at least supervised visits should be an option as should be family therapy.

Of course, you have to remember, as far as the law is concerned, my hubby is guilty, but yet, my sons can live with him and in fact his stipulations are specifically, no UNSUPERVISED contact with FEMALES under 18.
And yes CPS is well aware of the situation. In fact they did one home visit when all this was still in the pre-trial phase.
Yes, 2 workers came through our door, stood by the door, asked me to call the boys down stairs, said "Hi!" to them and then left
LOL! We got a report a few days later in the mail, stating that our sons were clean, well-groomed, looked well cared for, the house was clean and we had plenty of food ect. in the house.
Hmmm...how they got all that, I don't know. I mean, they were right, but how they discerned that is beyond me.
Anyway, I'm ever so glad that in my state they do allow children (non-victims) to be with their SO parent.
We also have to remember that when we speak of sex offenders, nationally that definition is very broad. So, we shouldn't be painting everyone with same brush, that's especially where each case is individual and not black and white