PORT COQUITLAM - The B.C. Review Board has ruled that child killer Allan Schoenborn will stay in psychiatric care. The board says he poses a serious threat of violence to the public. Schoenborn had been asking the Forensic Psychiatric Institute for a conditional discharge.
On February 22nd, Schoenborn was found guilty, but not criminally responsible for killing his three children, because of mental illness. Today, he asked to be freed, and said if he got his conditional discharge, he planned to become a 'ward of the government', and planned to get social housing.
After a morning of presentations from psychiatrists, social workers and doctors, Schoenborn told the panel he wants to be released so he can get work building house boats along the Fraser River.
Schoenborn also asked the panel not to allow the children's mother, Darcie Clarke, to make a victim impact statement, calling it hysterical. The prosecution asked that Schoenborn be held in custody for at least another year.
Psychiatrist Dr. Johann Brink told the panel that Schoenborn remains a risk to both the public and himself. At his trial, Schoenborn described in grisly detail how he killed his two sons and his daughter in their Merritt home two years ago, but a judge found that he was in a psychotic state at the time.