A mentally ill father found not criminally responsible for murdering his three children has been granted escorted day passes into the community.

The three-member B.C. Review Board panel made the decision Friday after spending a month deliberating over Allan Schoenborn’s fate.

The 47-year-old has been a patient at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, east of Vancouver, since killing his young children, Kaitlynne, Max and Cordon, in 2008.

Darcie Clarke, his ex-wife, says this is the outcome she and her family have been dreading.

“[He] will be re-entering our community even though the Review Board found him to be a high risk to public safety,” she said in a statement issued to media moments after the decision.

Clarke says her family is working with Crown to apply to the BC Supreme Court to have her ex-husband deemed a high-risk offender, to revoke the release order.

“I live in the Tri-Cities and I will now live in consistent fear that he will move ahead with his threats against me,” she wrote.

Both the hospital director and psychiatrist supported escorted day passes for the patient, saying they would benefit his rehabilitation.

In April, Schoenborn promised the review board he would not try to escape if he was allowed into the community and said he would try very hard to control his anger if someone called him a “child killer.”

But his case worker confirmed he has anger management issues, especially when people refer to him as a “child killer.”

The hospital’s lawyer said he still poses a significant threat to the community, and that he’s been involved in 11 incidents of verbal or physical aggression in the past year.

In one incident, Schoenborn reportedly chased a patient around a dining room table and shoved him “moderately.”

The B.C. Review Board found that Schoenborn suffers from a delusional disorder, paranoia and substance abuse issues.

His hospital physician says psychiatric medication has eased the symptoms for the former two conditions, and under treatment “there has been no evidence of delusions, hallucinations, paranoid thoughts [and] homicidal/suicidal ideation.”