Merritt child killer Allan Schoenborn has been denied additional freedoms by the BC Review Board.

Schoenborn is being held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam and had asked to be allowed escorted visits into the community.

The BC Review Board ruled that the biggest concern is Schoenborn wouldn’t be able to tolerate potentially negative encounters in the public.

Spokesperson of the victim’s family Dave Teixeira says the ruling is the right decision, but he points out the victim family wants notification if Schoenborn is ever in the community.

“We feel that this is a reasonable notification, especially since Schoenborn is held in the same community where the victim’s family resides. So it’s a fluke of geography, and all they’re looking for is notification of where and when, so that they can make sure they stay away from those locations,” Teixeira says.

“The next step is really the Review Board hearing that will take place in roughly a year or so, sometime in January 2020. And the family will have to wait patiently for that. It’s disappointing, because these annual reviews just victimize the family time and time again.”

Teixeira did say that on the positive side that the system seems to be working by keeping Schoenborn in custody at this point.

He was convicted in 2008 for killing his three young children but was found “not criminally responsible” in 2010.