{"id":833321,"date":"2026-07-29T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:04:20","slug":"frattolin-trial-slain-girl-did-not-want-to-go-on-africa-trip-with-her-father-mother-testifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833321\/","title":{"rendered":"Frattolin trial: Slain girl did not want to go on Africa trip with her father, mother testifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was reported by Lohr McKinstry and originally published in Plattsburgh, N.Y.\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/news\/murdered-girls-mother-testifies-in-essex-county-court\/article_98a94708-14cd-47de-ac92-952f62c18c64.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/news\/police-cell-data-placed-frattolin-at-site-of-daughters-murder\/article_10ab334e-b775-43c6-91cd-28f60eddd985.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/news\/murdered-girls-mother-testifies-in-essex-county-court\/article_98a94708-14cd-47de-ac92-952f62c18c64.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fourth day <\/a>of the Luciano Frattolin murder trial on Tuesday saw the slain girl\u2019s mother, Kali Galanis, testify that Melina didn\u2019t want to go on a trip to Ethiopia with her dad.<\/p>\n<p>Galanis, who resides in Montreal, said Frattolin first wanted to take Melina to his native country for two weeks, but she refused to allow that when her daughter objected.<\/p>\n<p>Frattolin instead got permission from Galanis to take Melina on a U.S. vacation, at the end of which he is accused of drowning her in a marsh in Ticonderoga, N.Y., a few miles off Interstate 87.<\/p>\n<p>Frattolin, 46, of Montreal, is charged with killing his daughter, and has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.<\/p>\n<p>Galanis said Melina told her Frattolin was saying alarming and troubling things to her, which was another reason to veto the African trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI became uncomfortable,\u201d she said in court.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Frattolin and Galanis ended in 2019, and Galanis had full custody of Melina.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n<p>The jury also heard continuing testimony from New York State Police Investigator Daniel Mauro that, when he asked Frattolin if he had any reason to murder his daughter, Frattolin said it would have been easier to do that in Ethiopia or Italy, where he also had citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Frattolin has reported to police that two men in a white van kidnapped Melina from an I-87 rest stop, but investigators believe that was a fictional story.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will resume Wednesday in Essex County Court, with Galanis continuing her testimony at 9:15 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story was reported by Lohr McKinstry and originally published in Plattsburgh, N.Y.\u2019s\u00a0Press-Republican. ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. \u2014 The fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-833321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}