Will my child be taken away if I am a sex offender?

Here is a good place to start. Are you on probation right now? If so, do you have any conditions in place that bar you from contact with any specific children or any children in general? On another point, do you and/or your girl friend have any other children in your household? If you do, and there are no probation provisions in place that bar you from having any unsupervised contact with them, you are probably OK. Lastly, DHS would need some evidence of a very specific threat to your new child (when born) in order to even seek an order barring you from any contact with that child. If DHS does show up and tries to use your conviction as a reason to even monitor your contct with your new baby, hire a lawyer and get the matter in front of a judge ASAP.