Woman who killed 3 daughters found suitable for parole; Gov. Brown to decide

Megan Hogg, shown in an undated photo provided by her attorney, is pictured with her three girls (from left) Antoinette Marden, 7, Alexandra Hogg, 2, and Angelique Roberts, 3. Megan Hogg was convicted of killing her three young daughters in Daly City in 1999. She was found suitable for parole Tuesday by a review board at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. less Megan Hogg, shown in an undated photo provided by her attorney, is pictured with her three girls (from left) Antoinette Marden, 7, Alexandra Hogg, 2, and Angelique Roberts, 3. Megan Hogg was convicted of ... more Photo: AARON SUOZZI / Photo: AARON SUOZZI / Image 1 of / 29 Caption Close Woman who killed 3 daughters found suitable for parole; Gov. Brown to decide 1 / 29 Back to Gallery

A mentally ill woman convicted of killing her three young daughters in Daly City was found suitable for parole Tuesday by a state prison review board in Chowchilla, officials said.

Megan K. Hogg, 45, was sentenced in San Mateo County Superior Court to 25 years to life in 1999 for suffocating her daughters. She pleaded no contest to the three counts of first-degree murder, which allowed her to avoid the possible sentence of life without parole.

At Tuesday’s review, a panel consisting of Commissioner Terri Turner and Deputy Commissioner Tim O’Hara found that Hogg “no longer constitutes an unreasonable risk of danger to the community,” according to the San Mateo County district attorney’s office, which objected to the decision.

The Board of Parole Hearings in Sacramento will now perform an administrative review of the case before it is taken to Gov. Jerry Brown, who can approve or reverse the decision.

On the morning of March 23, 1998, the bodies of Antoinette Marden, 7, Angelique Roberts, 3, and Alexandra Hogg, 2, were found in a bedroom of the Daly City home they shared with their grandparents. The girls’ grandmother found their bodies and Hogg, who had tried to kill herself by drinking hot chocolate laced with roughly 40 tablets of codeine, Tylenol, Vicodin and Trazodone.

Hogg was diagnosed with depression two years earlier and prescribed several antidepressant medications. She suffocated her daughters by taping their mouths and hands in order to “spare them the problems that she had faced in her own life,” court records state.

Family members and officials told The Chronicle around the time of the trial that Hogg had suffered from complications of an earlier head injury and may have lost the will to live, in part due to frequent seizures.

Hogg was living with her parents and worked for AT&T as an account executive handling billing out of a San Jose office.

The district attorney’s office said serious rules violations, disciplinary issues, poor parole plans and a violation of prison rules on dealing drugs within the prison were among the reasons Hogg should not be granted parole.

She remains incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, Madera County.

Jenna Lyons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jlyons@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JennaJourno