How do you respond and how do you ensure the children remain safe?

What Would You Do?

You are investigating a case in which the Boyfriend (BF) of the mother is alleged to being sexually abusing the mother’s 7 and 6 year old sons. The school called it in saying the children are constantly falling asleep at school, acting sexual with the other children in school, sexually flirting with the teachers, and peeing on themselves. All the classic signs of Child Sexual Abuse. You talk to the children and they say the BF of the mother demands they take a shower with him.

You ask the mother if she knows that her BF is a registered sex offender of a 1 year old girl 10 years ago . She says yes but that was when he was 30 and it was with this “16 year old slut girl and he wouldn’t do this to my boys because he is not Gay because he has sex with me daily”. How do you respond and how do you ensure the children remain safe?