Let me start by saying, yes, I know I am an idiot. Now for the details: in September of 2011, I became involved with a man. I believed he had been incarcerated due to drugs and was out on probation for a drug conviction. Side he was passing all his drug tests and appeared to be reformed, I got engaged to him in January 2012. I became pregnant the end of February. In march, someone told me to do a search on him. He was convicted of oral rape of a minor, (16 years old) or 2nd degree sexual assault. The minor was the cousin of his ex wife. He was now required to register as a sex offender. I left him 3 weeks later. I gave birth in November. He was not present for the birth, nor has been in any contact with my daughter. He has, since the breakup, been arrested for assault in a female, (for hitting his mother, which she later dropped) and misdemeanor stolen vehicle which he is expected to be convicted of. He has a probation violation hearing in April for the arrests. He also lives with his brother now who is a convicted drug user who is currently on trial for running moonshine. My ex, although not convicted for drugs, was a well known meth user and was in possession of meth at the time of arrest for sexual assault. He has recently discovered where I work, (I switched jobs, homes, and phone numbers to get away from him) and is threatening to try to get joint custody of my daughter. Does he have a good chance of getting unsupervised visitation? As I said before, I am aware I am an idiot for being involved with him, it is why I left, but I don't want my daughter to suffer because of my choices. Thanks for your comments,

I don't think, with his record, there is any chance a judge would give him temporary custody of anything.

While I agree that it is unlikely he will get any more than supervised visits, you are making a mistake from hiding from him. Despite everything, he is still the child's father and he has rights. What you need to do file for sole physical and legal custody and try to get a restraining order against him. With that, THEN you can legally cut off contact.

I have tried t get a 50b (restraining order) in nc. I was told since he neither hit nor sexually assaulted me, I would be unlikely to get it and if he did later on down the road he could use it as a precedent. I can't get any other type of restraining order because we were involved. I was under the impression that allowing him time with her would also set a precedent that I don't see him as a threat and would trigger his rights. He is not on the birth certificate so what I've been told is that the only way for him to get them is to get a DNA test and take me to court for custody. This is based on nc law.