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Convicted killer Kelly Ellard won’t get the escorted releases from prison she says needs after the recent birth of her child.

Ellard was asking for the parole board’s permission to leave prison for medical appointments and parenting programs, but the two board members were split on their decision Wednesday.

Ellard told the panel the birth of her baby has calmed her, and the infant was the best therapy she could have hoped for.

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She was convicted of second-degree murder after being tried as an adult in the 1997 beating and drowning death of 14-year-old Reena Virk near Victoria. Virk was swarmed and beaten by a group of teenagers.

The Parole Board says another hearing will be held for Ellard at a later date.

A media report said last October that Ellard was eight-months pregnant following a conjugal visit from her boyfriend. The gender of her child was not mentioned at Wednesday’s hearing.

At Ellard’s first parole hearing last May, she took responsibility for the death of Virk after repeatedly denying that she was involved, but said she was a child herself at just 15 years old.