Dad may get early parole in freezing deaths of daughters (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)

Dad CHRISTOPER PAUCHAY may get early parole in the freezing deaths of his two young daughters.

Apparently Dad had been home alone with the girls and drinking heavily when he took the girls outside in below zero weather in nothing but diapers and t-shirts. The girls weren't found until two days later--after Dad sobered up enough to ask about them.

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Early parole possible for father whose daughters froze to death: lawyer.

Canwest News Service July 15, 2009

SASKATOON - The Saskatchewan man convicted in the freezing deaths of his two young daughters may have a better chance of getting early parole now that additional charges against him have been stayed, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The Crown stayed two charges of breaching bail conditions against Christopher Pauchay on Wednesday, said lawyer Ron Piche.

The offences allegedly occurred when Pauchay was out of jail on conditions while facing charges of negligence causing his daughters' deaths on the Yellow Quill First Nation, about 240 kilometres east of Saskatoon.

The conditions included that he not consume alcohol, but Pauchay was allegedly found drinking on both Dec. 13 and Jan. 8.

Pauchay's lawyer said he had been pushing the Crown to drop the charges, saying it would be ``overkill'' on top of the three-year sentence his client was already serving.

He will be eligible for parole in January 2010, Piche said.

Pauchay was home alone with the toddlers - Kaydance, 3, and Santana, 15 months - and had been drinking heavily when he took his daughters, who were dressed only in diapers and T-shirts, outside on a late January night in 2008, with the temperature was around -50 with the wind chill.

A neighbour found Pauchay frostbitten, hypothermic and incoherent on her doorstep several hours later. It wasn't until later that day that Pauchay asked after his daughters from his hospital bed, and a frantic search for the children began.

The girls' bodies were found in the ensuing two days, buried in snowdrifts not far from the family home.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix