Yes - I’ve experienced this myself. They can be terrifying with abusers and you have to do it or you’ll be in violation of a court order.also i want to comment even in way better circumstances, custody exchanges are a powder keg. there was a period of time my husband had to do supervised exchanges (not visits, just exchanges) because his childrens mom would show up w a bunch of ppl cursing and threatening him. he never went alone and recorded every interaction.
From the article it sounds like the support worker would take the child into the supervised area.
I wonder if the daughter and her boyfriend were along for moral support maybe?
It also sounds like the perp would have killed his own son. He is a monster.