Administrators at the B.C. Review Board knew that Allan Schoenborn's ex-wife was living in Coquitlam when the board decided to allow him the chance to visit the community, CTV News has learned.
The board's decision last week is now under review after the director of the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Port Coquitlam learned that the child killer's ex-wife Darcie Clarke has been living in Coquitlam.
Board members say they didn't know Clarke was living in the area when they decided Schoenborn could apply for escorted day trips, but their administrators have her address on file. The board sent her a letter at that address on March 11, detailing when and where Schoenborn's review hearing was to take place.
Crown spokesman Neil McKenzie says victim details are not shared during review hearings as a safety precaution.
"If information on the location of a victim is passed along in the course of a hearing, that is disclosed to an accused person as well," he said.
Schoenborn killed the couple's three children in 2008, but he was deemed not criminally responsible for the murders and placed under psychiatric care.
Clarke now lives with her cousin Stacy Galt, who says that she fears for her life if Schoenborn is allowed escorted day trips into the community.
"She will never feel safe," Galt said.
B.C. Attorney General Barry Penner says that the review boards should always be aware of where victims are living.
"The information then would be with the hospital and subject to privacy legislation, and that way there would not be a risk of that information becoming public," he said Wednesday.
Penner has sent a letter to federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson asking for changes in the law.
But Conservative candidate James Moore rejects any suggestion his government should have changed the law sooner and is placing the blame on the review board.
"They failed. They failed the system, they failed the community and they failed the victims," he said.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Bhinder Sajan
