The son of a woman married to convicted sex offender James Douglas Campbell claims Campbell violated parole conditions while under the supervision of his mother, a retired psychiatrist, and that she failed to report it to police.

Allegations his mother flatly denies.

Barry Waterlow, 56, also alleges patients of his mother, Doreen Darley, would visit her for treatment at her Abbotsford home when Campbell stayed there in 2004.

The home was being run as a Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) halfway house at the time, said Waterlow, and some patients would bring their kids to play while they met with Darley, unaware a convicted pedophile was staying at the home.

"She knew everything. It didn't make any difference, she didn't tell anybody what was up. She didn't tell who she had in the house," Waterlow said.

Darley, 89, told the Times Wednesday that she was contracted by CSC, and Campbell was living with her at the time, from December 2003 until March 2004, but she said she couldn't recall patients ever bringing children with them.

"I had my office in my home [then]," Darley said. According to Darley, Waterlow stayed at her home for many years, but was now no longer living with her.

"I let him stay with me but, finally I had to ask him to leave and I've provided for him," she said.

Darley said Waterlow recently moved out of her house.

Corrections Canada media relations officer Alain Charette could not confirm whether Darley was a contracted halfway house operator in 2004 because of privacy stipulations, and declined to comment on Waterlow's allegations of unreported parole violations.

"Just as we don't discuss the location of offenders, here you're asking about an individual operator and we run into privacy hurdles about releasing that information," Charette said.

"It's not an area we could go . . . it's covered by the privacy act and we have to go by that act."

Campbell, 59, and Darley were married at Ferndale Institution in a civil ceremony on March 30.

On May 13, the National Parole Board granted Campbell three 12-hour day trips a month and specified that he must be in the company of Darley, or her designate, when driving.

Those day trips are to be extended to longer periods of time over the next several months.

Campbell is serving a 24-year sentence for five sexual assaults, forcible confinement and possession of a prohibited weapon.

Other convictions include break and enter, possession of a loaded shotgun, robbery, fraud and property offences.

He has more than 60 criminal convictions dating back to 1967 including the sexual assaults of several young girls, aged five to 12, and one seven-year-old girl that was abducted while she was walking to school.

"My concern is really for the safety and security of the people in the community," Waterlow said.

Police confirmed Campbell breached parole in 2004 in Abbotsford while staying at a halfway house and escaped to Falkland before being arrested by the RCMP.

Darley said it was her vehicle that Campbell took when he left Abbotsford and drove to the Interior, but flatly denied an allegation by Waterlow that she waited two days to contact police about Campbell's disappearance.

"I didn't realize [he had left the city] until he didn't turn up in the afternoon - about 4 o'clock - that he was not turning up. That's when I reported it immediately," Darley said.

Abbotsford Police Department spokesperson Const. Ian MacDonald said the safety of the community is their priority.

"The decisions that are made by the National Parole Board are theirs. From our standpoint all we can do is safeguard the public the best we can. We can't undo it," MacDonald said.

National Parole Board spokesperson Debra Kihara said the board does individual risk assessments in order to make changes to release conditions, or take away an offender's release order.

"The board itself does not manage risk, that is something done by the Correctional Service of Canada through parole and duty officers," she said.

Waterlow said he doesn't understand how Darley meets any criteria to accompany a convicted sex offender, and is surprised by CSC's decision to release Campbell.

"I was absolutely flabbergasted," he said.

Parole Board documents dated from May 13, 2010 cite Campbell's conditional release history as "problematic."

It states he has consistently violated parole, mandatory supervision and day parole and has a pattern of re-offending.

Documents also show a psychologist had concerns over Campbell's "struggle to understand and control [his] sexual behaviour and fantasies."

Statements, Darley said, she disagrees with.

Darley said once Campbell is finished serving his sentence, the two will live together and Campbell is planning on attending university.

"He's very bright," she said.