It was one of the most infamous child murder cases in recent Toronto history and next month will mark 35 years since little Andrea Atkinson was raped and murdered by the janitor in her east end building.

So it is a jarring missive from the past when the Parole Board decision arrives in my email box: John Terceira, now 53, must remain in a medium security prison, still nowhere near ready to be trusted out in the world of vulnerable children.

And that is a relief.

It was Oct. 14, 1990, a Sunday morning shortly before 9 a.m, when Andrea left her home on Coatsworth Cr. – southeast of Coxwell and Danforth Aves. – to visit a friend in an apartment a few doors down the hall. Her mother, Ruth Windebank, sleeping off a night of drinks, had given her permission – but she would later be blamed

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