Give Allen Schoenborn the best possible treatment, but keep him inside
KAMLOOPS — One of the foundations of our Canadian justice system is the belief that even those guilty of the most unthinkable acts are capable of being rehabilitated, of being returned to society.
So, we give them the tools and the trust to become different people than they were when they committed their transgressions. We offer them treatment, training and the opportunity of freedom.
This is a worthy sentiment — we don’t want a legal system based on revenge.
But the case of Allan Schoenborn stretches our instincts of forgiveness to the breaking point. In 2008, Schoenborn murdered his three children in their Merritt home. He was found not criminally responsible due to a delusional disorder and has been in the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam ever since.