The father of two girls found frozen to death in a snowy field last winter on a Canadian native reserve has pleaded guilty to criminal negligence, the Associated Press reported.
Christopher Pauchay, who family members said was drunk at the time, lost his one-year-old and three-year-old daughters last Jan. 29 as he walked to a neighbors house in temperatures with a wind-chill factor of -50 C or -50 F.
The single charge of criminal negligence causing the deaths of both children was laid to address a failure "to
provide protection from exposure to the elements."