{"id":853345,"date":"2026-08-10T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853345\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:38:15","slug":"n-y-jury-convicts-montreal-father-of-murder-in-death-of-9-year-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853345\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. jury convicts Montreal father of murder in death of 9-year-old daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A New York jury has found a 46-year-old man guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his nine-year-old daughter from Montreal.<\/p>\n

Luciano Frattolin was also convicted of concealing his daughter’s body.<\/p>\n

Some family members in the court let out sobs and held onto each other as they heard the verdict.<\/p>\n

Standing between his two attorneys, Frattolin kept a neutral expression, shaking his head slightly, before sitting down.<\/p>\n

He was taken away in handcuffs minutes later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The jury deliberated for about an hour following a trial that lasted about three weeks.<\/p>\n

“It was a tough case,” said Eric Weyand, one of Frattolin’s lawyers, outside the courtroom.<\/p>\n

Frattolin is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 14, and will remain in custody.<\/p>\n

Melina Frattolin’s body was found last year in a marsh in a rural area of New York, partially covered by a fallen tree with a large rock on her chest.<\/p>\n

The girl and her father were nearing the end of a weeklong trip in the United States when Frattolin reported his daughter missing on July 19, 2025.<\/p>\n

Her body was found the next day near Ticonderoga, N.Y., about 400 kilometres north of New York City.<\/p>\n

Frattolin reported his daughter had been kidnapped by two men who drove off in a white van, but investigators later arrested him for the child’s murder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-853345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853345","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=853345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}