(AP) — A man who stabbed  a little boy  to death 40 years ago in northeast Nebraska has been paroled for a third time.

55-year-old Antonio Laravie’s parole was approved Wednesday on a 3-2 vote by the Nebraska Parole Board in Lincoln.

Laravie was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1973 death of 2-year-old Chad Wilson in Niobrara. Laravie, from South Dakota, had broken into the Niobrara home and stabbed the little boy in his bedroom.

Chad’s mother, Denise Wilson, appeared at the parole hearing and asked the board to keep Laravie behind bars.

Laravie has been paroled twice before. But he was sent back to prison each time, for drug and alcohol violations and for not complying with travel restrictions.