Legal Question in Criminal Law in New York

My fiancee (John) is a 55 year old man. He has 2 children 1 son 25 and 1 daughter 23. He was remarried 13 years ago to a woman with a 11 year old daughter. His new wife had been a recovering alcoholic for approx. 7 years. After they married she began drinking heavily. She had been in and out of rehabs for the next 3 years. One day her daughter accused him of some type of molestation. He denies it and told me the reason the girl said that was she blamed him for her mothers drinking and he was the reason for the breakup of her parents and she wanted him out of the house. She was seeing a therapist and told her something had been attempted one day and child protective services of course got involved. He was arrested and released but was told he had to leave their residence and an order of protection was issued. He had to attend a class for sexual offenders for one year. The wife started seeing him again and one time actually brought the daughter over to his home with her. The daughter told her father and he reported it and John was arrested again for violating the order. The legal papers that I had read says his conviction was endangering the welfare of a child. He claims his lawyer advised him to take this conviction because he violated a court order. He says it has nothing to do with any molestation. He claims there was no proof whatsoever of that. It was her word against his. My question is can a person be convicted of endangering the welfare of a child for breaking a court order of protection? Or perhaps he is lying to me and that charge is for molestation? I hate not to believe him because I want too, but I am a 55 year old grandmother and I need the truth.

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