Parental Controls crashing my Mac

I keep getting random freezes and when I check the log, the last thing to be running before I reboot is "parentalcontrolsd".  There is a notice about "***StartObservingFSEvents started event stream" and then the next entry is when I force reboot.
I do not have parental controls turned on for any account.  Is there anyway to completely delete this service?
I've tried running this through Terminal - and still no good.
sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Apple/ParentalControls/
Thanks for any advice.
Jim

Have you thought about taking it away from her and only allowing her to use it for school work in front of you, IE in the same room you are in. And when she is done with school work turn it off and take it away from her. Then make her read a book.
Get it, Wipe the drive, reinstall the OS, Set yourself as the admin, give her a normal User account and set the P controls again.
IMHO you don't need to view the iChat logs. You need to remove iChat from the computer.

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