Father receives life sentence in New York for murder of Montreal girl
A U.S. judge is expected to hand down a sentence Wednesday for Luciano Frattolin, a Montreal man who was found guilty in August of the second-degree murder of his nine-year-old daughter, Melina.
Luciano Frattolin faces life in prison for 2nd-degree murder charge
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A U.S. judge is expected to hand down a sentence Wednesday for Luciano Frattolin, a Montreal man who was found guilty in August of the second-degree murder of his nine-year-old daughter, Melina.
The jury also convicted Frattolin of concealment of a human corpse.
The minimum sentence for the second-degree murder charge alone is 15 years to life, while the maximum is life imprisonment.
Frattolin and Melina were wrapping up a weeklong trip in the United States when the former reported her missing on July 19, 2025.
Her body was found the next day in a marsh near Ticonderoga, N.Y., about 400 kilometres north of New York City. The autopsy found she died from asphyxia due to drowning.
Frattolin initially reported that two men had kidnapped Melina, but he was arrested shortly after for her murder.
He was held without bail for just under a year until his trial, which unfolded over three weeks in the summer at the Essex County Courthouse in Elizabethtown, N.Y.
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