// BBC UK NEWS — CRONACA
'My sex offender ex is fighting for access to our child'
'Lucy' is calling for a change in the law to strip people convicted of child-related sex offences of their parental responsibility (stock image)
A woman who is fighting to stop her sex offender ex-husband having contact with their child has said the thought of it makes her "feel sick".
Lucy - not her real name - described how her "world was blown apart" when her then husband was convicted of possessing indecent images of children, including videos of children being sexually abused.
She told BBC News NI she was further "horrified" to discover he was taking her to family court for supervised access to their child.
She is now calling for a change in Northern Ireland's laws to strip people convicted of child-related sex offences of their parental responsibility.
Commissioner for victims of crime, Geraldine Hanna, said courts had discretion in individual cases but she believed they should be given "all the powers they need" to address concerns on this issue.
"When I think of my husband, who I believed him to be, compared to this person, this person's a complete stranger to me," Lucy told the BBC.
"It makes me feel sick to think that he would be even near my child. So I really do not want to put my child in a room with a stranger, supervised or not.
"As a mother all I want to do is protect my child and I'm not doing that if I'm letting [them] in a room with a stranger."
Lucy said she recognised her call for the law to change was a "huge" demand, but that it was aimed at protecting children and families.