Merritt child killer Allen Schoenborn will be back looking for additional freedoms in the new year.

Spokesperson for the victim family Dave Teixeira says the BC Review Board hearing will be Feb. 7 at Colony Farms in Coquitlam. It’s not clear exactly what freedoms Schoenborn will be asking for.

After Schoenborn’s most recent request for escorted leave was denied 10 months ago, Teixiera said the victim’s 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. It’s a fluke of geography, and all they’re looking for is a notification of where and when, so they can stay away from those locations.”

Schoenborn killed his three children in a Merritt trailer park in April of 2008. He was found not criminally responsible in 2010 and has since been held in the Coquitam Psychiatric Hospital.

This will be his first hearing since Darcie Clarke – who was the mother of the three children – died back in May. Clarke moved to Port Coquitlam after the tragedy, not long before Schoenborn was moved to Coquitlam.

“It’s disappointing, because these annual reviews just victimize the families time and time again,” Teixeira said earlier this year.