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My question involves child abuse or neglect in the State of: Florida

I am seperated and the children's father was having the children spend the night every other weekend, but I have not let him see them overnight since their father left our 9 and 3 year old in the water (kiddie pool) at a water park and left the children without adult supervision and he went and rode the adult slide twice and left them aprox 20 minutes alone. my 9 year old was the one that told me about it. my 9 year old did say their was a life guard their but they were changing shifts. either way they were left alone.... i called the park to verify their rules they said that no children under 12 is allowed to be unsupervised and that their workers and lifeguards are not responsible for the saftey or care of the children..... this i fugured.... its common sense

Anyway i contacted the sherriffs dept and they said to contact a lawyer or dcf because they could not help me because it happened in a different county. i contacted a attorney who told me not to call dcf and that she would get an emergecy hearing. that got denied and our court hearing is not until end of year due to overload at court house.... in the mean time the children's father only sees the children with me their at places where there are other people their for accountability. now the father wants to see them alone again and i am having a hard time with him (he has an anger problem and their was domestic violence in the past). my question is do you think i should just go ahead and contact department of children and family and have them take care of it since our court date will not be months away.... i just want to make sure the kids stay safe... what do you think i should do?

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT:
What is the EXACT wording of your EXISTING visitation order?

If you have an existing visitation order- does your attorney know that you are denying visitations, and if your court order does NOT specify SUPERVISED visitations, does your attorney know that you are only allowing supervised visits?

Other than the water park incident, what other proof do you have that Dad is placing the children in danger?

The fact that an emergency hearing was not granted speaks volumes about the water park incident, if that is your only basis.

IF you do have a court order for visitation that does not order supervision, and your attorney is aware that you are willingly refusing to obey that court order- you really need a different attorney. Unless you have some extremely compelling evidence of Dad always palcing the children in danger, it's very possible that YOU could be found in contempt for not obeying the court order.

As for contacting DCF- again, unless you have ALOT more RECENT proof of Dad endangering, you should not call based on only the waterpark incident, if you do you will only be making things worse for yourself in court.