Father in Toddler Freezing Deaths to be Released

Father in Toddler Freezing Deaths to be Released

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 15:31

The National Parole Board says a father found guilty in the freezing deaths of his two young daughters on a Saskatchewan reserve is to be released from prison.

Christopher Pauchay from the Yellowquill First Nation has served nearly three years on a conviction of criminal negligence causing death.

Santana and Kaydance died after a drunken Pauchay wrapped them in a blanket and lost them outside during an ice-cold blizzard in January 2008.

It wasn’t until eight hours after he was found that the girls, who were three years and 15 months old, were discovered frozen in the snow.

The parole board says Pauchay is to return to the community January 25 as part of his statutory release.

He will have to report all relationships to his parole officer and must abstain from drugs and alcohol.

(courtesy of The Canadian Press)