A man from the Yellow Quill First Nation of Saskatchewan pleaded guilty for the deaths of his two young daughters.

Christopher Pauchay, 24, admitted he was criminally negligent in taking three-year-old Kaydance and one-year-old Santana Pauchay outside on a freezing night in January. He had been drinking the night before and left them in a field, where they were found frozen to death.

The punishment for criminal negligence causing death is life in prison. Pauchay's lawyer will ask for a sentencing circle.

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