The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating the deaths of two young sisters on the Yellow Quill Reserve in Saskatchewan.
Kaydance Pauchay, 3, was found frozen to death on Wednesday. A day earlier, her one-year-old sister, Santana , was found dead. Both were wearing little more than a diaper and some light clothes in freezing temperatures.
The girls' father, Christopher Pauchay, was first discovered early Tuesday morning, suffering from frostbite and hypothermia. After he recovered several hours later, he asked about his daughters, whom he apparently left in a field. Alcohol may have played a factor.
"I just heard my son was in the hospital and he was complaining about his daughters he left in the field – `I left my babies in the field,' he was telling the RCMP," Pearl Pauchay, Christopher's mother, was reported as saying.
The deaths have devastated the small community of about 800.
Get the Story:Dad: `I left my babies in the field' (The Toronto Star 1/31)
Yellow Quill residents mourn loss of children (The Regina Leader Post 1/31)
Band devastated by girls' deaths (The Victoria Times Colonist 1/31)
Second child found dead on reserve (The Saskatoon StarPhoenix 1/31)
2nd Native tot found frozen (CP 1/31)
Probe begins into deaths of 2 girls on Sask. reserve (CBC 1/30)
