Legal Question in Family Law in Washington

supervised visitation for a disturbed father

I have stopped the visitation my 9 yr. old daughter had with her father. Reason being, my daughter told me her father makes her sleep in his bed with him when she would stay the night. My daughter says she often asked if she could sleep in the other bedroom or on the couch. He would tell her no. Shortly after Her father and I seperated my daughter came to me and told me her father made her sleep in bed with him, she was very upset. He was told then to not ever let it happen again. (Our daughter has never slept in our bed, not even as a baby.) Come to find out he never stopped. And he some how convinced my daughter to not tell me. Her father and I seperated over a year ago. There are many other factors in his poor parenting but this one was the one thing that actually made me stop the visitation. I can't think of any reason a 38 yr old man would make his 9 yr old daughter sleep with him. (not anything good anyway) I allowed my daughter and 15 year old son (my son not his, but he did spend 11 years as dad to my son) to visit more than often. The father has now served me with papers for a parenting plan for my daughter only. He is asking for alot in his parenting plan. So what do I do?The visitation needs to be supervised!

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