Indo-Canadian pleads guilty to beheading two-yr-old daughter

Kahlon gets an automatic life sentence with parole eligibility to be decided later. He had pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder just two weeks ago when his trial opened in BC Supreme Court in New Westminster.

Crown prosecutors Donna Ballyk and Lynette Jung had earlier presented gruesome details of the murder. Rajvinder was killed when her father was alone with her and her mother had stepped out to take the other children to school.

A forensic pathologist had testified that the two-year-old was strangled and beheaded,media reports said.

Family friends said Kahlon was depressed about not having a son. However,his wife Manjit Kahlon maintained that her husband never complained to her about having female children.

Manjit,who was not in court for the guilty plea,told the a local newspaper last year that Lakvinder had suffered from depression since 2004 and once tried to commit suicide.

A family statement following the death said the “mother is extremely and understandably distraught. Her little girl was vibrant and precious. No one can imagine what the mother is going through.” Under the Criminal Code,Kahlon must serve at least 10 years before becoming eligible for parole.