Merritt Dad Who Killed His Three Children Granted Escorted Leave

Triple child killer Allan Schoenborn has been granted escorted leave by the B.C. Review Board.

Schoenborn will be allowed to take day trips outside of the Psychiatric Hospital where he is currently serving his sentence for murdering his children. It took the B.C. Review Board nearly 30 hours of hearings, spread over six weeks to come to the decision. The mother of the three children, Darcie Clarke, issued a statement following the decision, which she had been waiting to hear for four weeks.

Allan Schoenborn (Photo Credit: File Photo)

“Allan Schoenborn, the man who murdered my three children – Kaitlynne, Max and Cordon – will be re-entering our community even though the Review Board found him to be a high risk to public safety,” said Clarke in her statement. “While the escorted leaves are at the discretion of Dr. Johann Brink at Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, this is of no comfort to me.”

In 2014 Schoenborn was denied his request for day passes by the B.C. Review Board. Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for killing his three children in their Merritt home in 2008, and in 2014 he was deemed a risk to the community.

Darcie Clarke with the Prime Minister (Photo Credit: 4Darcie)

Schoenborn admitted to killing his three children in April 2008 and was at the centre of manhunt in the woods near the community of Merritt, which ended when a local hunter found him.

“He could be in our community at any time without the public’s knowledge because the Review Board does not have the public’s safety as their paramount concern. I live in the Tri-Cities and I will now live in consistent fear that he will move ahead with his threats against me, because as he has said, I am “unfinished business,” continues Clarke in her statement.

The children murdered by Schoenborn (Photo Credit: 4Darcie)

Clarke is calling on Premier Christy Clark and B.C.’s Minister of Justice, Suzanne Anton, to review the Board’s decision and the operations at the Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital. Clarke is also working with Crown Council to present an application to the Supreme Court to have Schoenborn deemed a high risk offender. If this occurs, Schoenborn will have his escorted leaves revoked and he could be held in custody for treatment for up to 36 months.

The orders from the B.C. Review Board regarding Allan Schoenbron's day passes (Photo Credit: B.C. Review Board)