Child-killer Allan Schoenborn may get escorted trips into the community

WATCH:  The hearing for escorted day passes continues for Allan Schoenborn, who admitted to killing his three young children. John Hua reports.

VANCOUVER – Child-killer Allan Schoenborn will not learn today whether he will be allowed escorted trips into the community.

An annual hearing before the BC Review Board has been adjourned for a later date.

Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for the 2008 slayings of his daughter and two sons, 10-year-old Kaitlynne, eight-year-old Max, and five-year-old Cordon. Since the killings he has been in a psychiatric hospital in Port Coquitlam.

He’s now asking for supervised outings, something his doctors support.

Leanne Lee, Schoenborn’s case manager in the facility, took the stand Thursday morning.  Her testimony focused on the difference in Schoenborn between 2010 and today.

In 2010 she called him “guarded, hostile and difficult to engage” and today she said he is “overall less irritable, more subtle and calmer.”

According to his psychiatrist at the hearing last week, Schoenborn has shown significant and reasonable progress and has only been in one violent incident in the past year.

That incident involved another patient and both were found to be at fault. Staff said the pair had a history of antagonizing each other.

Crown maintains that Schoenborn is not ready for supervised outings as he sleeps most of the day and keeps himself very isolated.

In a statement posted online by Darcie Clark and Stacy Galt, they say every year they have to go through the horrors this man unleashed on their family. Clark is the mother of the three children and Galt is her cousin.

In the write-up they say:

This is a man who has had more than 40 violent interactions with staff and patients in Colony Farm over four years. Eleven of those incidents took place this past year for such “atrocities” as someone eating cashews, turning the TV channel, being called a child killer and sneezing too loud. Yet two of his doctors share contradictory insights – he is getting better, he’s still a risk to the safety of others, passes into the community would be good for him but he is a high risk to escape.

His doctors want to allow this triple child killer to visit Coquitlam Centre, Hyde Creek Recreation Centre, parks, coffee shops and a host of other public settings within a 15 minute drive of Colony Farm. He will be escorted by two occupational therapists – not security staff. Keep in mind that Allan eluded police for ten days after he murdered Darcie’s children and that he has escaped police or psychiatric care numerous times in his adult life.

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: This is a man who has had more than 40 violent interactions with staff and patients in Colony Farm over four years. Eleven of those incidents took place this past year for such "atrocities" as someone eating cashews, turning the TV channel, being called a child killer and sneezing too loud. Yet two of his doctors share contradictory insights - he is getting better, he's still a risk to the safety of others, passes into the community would be good for him but he is a high risk to escape.</p><p>His doctors want to allow this triple child killer to visit Coquitlam Centre, Hyde Creek Recreation Centre, parks, coffee shops and a host of other public settings within a 15 minute drive of Colony Farm. He will be escorted by two occupational therapists - not security staff. Keep in mind that Allan eluded police for ten days after he murdered Darcie's children and that he has escaped police or psychiatric care numerous times in his adult life.