(KRON) — A Daly City mother who murdered her three young daughters in 1998 was found suitable for parole on Friday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Megan Hogg was 25 years old when, on March 23, 1998, she taped the mouths and feet of her daughters — aged 2, 3 and 7 years old — and smothered them to death. Prosecutors said Hogg killed her children “out of anger that the children loved their grandmother who was taking care of the children more than her.”
Hogg pleaded no contest to three counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
A parole hearing was conducted on Friday at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Ten family members appeared at the hearing, with seven of Hogg’s immediate family members supporting her release, according to the DA’s office. Three family members from the children’s father’s side also appeared, and two of them opposed her release. The remaining family member deferred to the Board of Parole Hearings panel’s discretion…