Posted on 06/04/2026 7:05:28 PM PDT by jerod
Allan Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for the deaths of his 3 children
A family representative for the victims of child killer Allan Schoenborn says the British Columbia Review Board's decision to grant him a conditional discharge is "baffling" and reveals shortfalls in the province's mental health and justice systems.
Board chairperson Geneviève Boudreau says in a ruling that took effect on Tuesday that Schoenborn will report to a psychiatric clinic and live under supervision, but he must return to the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C., if ordered to do so.
Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for the first-degree murders of his three children — five-year-old Cordon, eight-year-old Max, and 10-year-old Kaitlynne — at their Merritt, B.C., home in 2008.
The ruling notes that Schoenborn cannot possess a firearm or weapon, use alcohol, cannabis or prohibited drugs, and he must submit to alcohol and drug testing.
Dave Teixeira, who represents the family of the three slain children, says Schoenborn will live in a facility in the Vancouver area, where's he's lived for the past year.
He says the family was disappointed but not surprised by the review board's decision, and that Schoenborn's violent tendencies and unwillingness to participate in drug and alcohol counselling could pose a risk to the public, as he would be allowed into the community without supervision.
"Allan Schoenborn is more evil than he is ill. He's more concerned with getting freedom as opposed to getting better," Teixeira said in a phone interview Thursday.
The review board decision said Schoenborn must "keep the peace and be of good behaviour," and is forbidden from having direct or indirect contact with three people referred to in the ruling by their initials.
Teixeira said they are family members of the victims.
If an accused person who was found not criminally responsible does not pose a significant threat to the safety of the public, a review board is required by law to order an absolute discharge.
Isabel Grant, a professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in criminal law, said a conditional discharge means the board found Schoenborn poses some degree of risk.
Grant said the adult psychiatric director has the discretion to decide where Schoenborn lives and they do not need to make that decision public.
"There don't seem to be a lot of constraints on his liberty," she said.
Grant said Schoenborn's supposed unwillingness to participate in drug and alcohol treatment poses concerns if it is recent behaviour, but there are a lot of unknowns until the board publishes its reasoning behind the decision...
Why not just keep him in confinement? Does it save The State a huge amount of money? Except under certain circumstances, he is likely to be unemployable. just going by his appearance plus his local reputation. He and his neighbors are being set up for failure.
Find him and dispose of him.
Then do the psychiatrist who signed off on this.
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Send him up to Nunavut with a knife, lighter, and a Bible.
It’s obvious no person that is “sane” by civilized standards could murder their own children. The entire western concept of “not guilty by reason of insanity” is in itself, insane. It has to be discarded. Insane people can absolutely be guilty and should be punished accordingly for their crimes.
Sounds like a prime candidate for MAiD.
Then, either the Hospital or the Patient himself would start upping the ante.
Wood Chipper, Rope, Tree....Some assembly required..................
So he’s crazy put him away in a locked mental ward for life. You don’t allow people like this to freely run around.
He doesn’t look to me like he would even clean up enough to consider letting him loose, even if he was sane which he isn’t.
Because..mentally deranged always obey the rules.
He just wants to be free, to be married and start a family.
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