New Mac Mini Server 10.9 crashing daily

I have a brand new mac mini server with the latest updates with the only thing running on it is FileMaker Server. The Apple Server functions are not on. The only thing running on this machine is FileMaker Server 13. The machine was crashing at 12:15 every night for a week. After trying to narrow it down I turned off FileMaker Server and the machine would still crash at 12:15 the logs didn't show a crash. The only thing showing in the log at that time was parentalcontrolsd doing something and a some kind of screen sharing item which doesn't make sense because no one can screen share with it.
I reinstalled OSX this weekend. I did not install the server add-ons at all.
It was running fine then today it crashed this afternoon as 2 users where on using it.

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