{"id":882186,"date":"2026-10-14T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882186\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:38:08","slug":"man-sentenced-for-killing-of-9-year-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882186\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for killing of 9-year-old daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian man convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/capital-region\/public-safety\/2026\/04\/13\/luciano-frattolin-trial-essex-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murdering his 9-year-old daughter<\/a>\u00a0was sentenced Wednesday morning in Essex County court.<\/p>\n<p>Luciano Frattolin, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/capital-region\/news\/2026\/08\/10\/luciano-frattolin-trial-closing-arguments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found guilty<\/a> on\u00a0charges of second-degree murder and concealment of a corpse in August in connection with the July 2025 death of his daughter Melina, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on the murder charge and 1-3 years on the concealment charge. The two sentences will run consecutively.<\/p>\n<p>An Amber Alert was issued in late July 2025 for Melina, who was reported missing by her father. He said she was last seen in the area of I-87 near Exit 22 in Lake George and was possibly taken by men in a white van, according to New York State Police. After authorities identified inconsistencies in Frattolin&#8217;s account of events and the timeline he provided, an investigation led to police determining that no abduction had occurred, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p>The girl\u2019s body was later found in a shallow pond in Ticonderoga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian man convicted of murdering his 9-year-old daughter\u00a0was sentenced Wednesday morning in Essex County court. Luciano Frattolin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21337,4,450,451,3,7739,452,453],"class_list":["post-882186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}