Jordan suffered multiple fractured ribs, a lacerated liver, a bruised pancreas, had all his toes crushed by the clamp of a small desk fan and eventually choked on his own vomit.

Now, after being jailed for manslaughter, it comes to pass that Hoerler could be back in the community as soon as this July.

“Please do the right thing and keep this monster in jail,” Jordan’s uncle, Darcy Smith, says in a passionate letter to the parole board, which Hoerler will face on May 3.

Darcy has become the unofficial spokesman for the Smith family which he says has not moved on from the horror of Jordan’s death.

“Please close your eyes for a minute and just try to imagine some of the thoughts that go through our minds during this time,” he says.

Hoerler was the sometimes live-in boyfriend of Jordan’s mother, Louise Anderson, and had been introduced into the family home only about three weeks before the killing.

It’s a fact that preys on the mind of Jordan’s father, and Darcy’s younger brother, Cecil Smith.

Darcy says Cecil had tried to block out the pain by turning to alcohol, and that he blames himself, wondering “what would have happened if I didn’t separate with Louise, or if I had have taken Jordan?”

Darcy says he has become overly protective of his own four children.

He won’t let them play alone in the park less than 50 metres from their Glenfield house and he takes them to and from school each day.

“If there is someone out there that can do this to a baby, what type of other people are there in the world?” he says.

Hoerler coming before the parole board is not a matter of opening old wounds for the Smith family because Darcy says they never actually healed.

Jordan’s paternal grandmother Rita Smith visits the cemetery every Sunday and the family openly talks about Jordan as though he is still with them.

What frightens them the most is the thought that Hoerler will have been a model prisoner, a perfect candidate for parole.

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