Father set to be sentenced in New York for the murder of nine-year-old Montreal girl

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Glorieux-Stryckman, M. (2026, October 14). Father set to be sentenced in New York for the murder of nine-year-old Montreal girl. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/father-set-to-be-sentenced-in-new-york-for-the-murder-of-nine-year-old-montreal-girl/article_c051289b-688e-574c-a615-0bdda3810ead.html

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-14 · by Marieke Glorieux-Stryckman

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Luciano Frattolin, a Montreal man, is scheduled to be sentenced today in Essex County Court for drowning his nine-year-old daughter, Melina, in a creek in Upstate New York. He was found guilty on August 10 of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse.
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Luciano Frattolin, a man from Montreal, is set to be sentenced today in Essex County Court in Elizabethtown, New York, after being found guilty on August 10 for the murder of his nine-year-old daughter, Melina Frattolin. The jury convicted him of second-degree murder and concealing a human corpse in relation to her death. Melina was killed when Luciano drowned her in a creek in Upstate New York.

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Marieke Glorieux-Stryckman
12 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
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Topics

ELIZABETHTOWN Essex County Court Montreal N.Y.

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ELIZABETHTOWN GPE · 2× Essex County Court ORG · 1× Luciano Frattolin PERSON · 1× Melina Frattolin PERSON · 1× Montreal GPE · 1× N.Y. GPE · 1×

Narrative

On Aug. 10, a jury in Elizabethtown, N.Y., found Luciano Frattolin guilty of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in the death of nine-year-old Melina Frattolin.
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🔮 A Montreal man found guilty of drowning his daughter in a creek in Upstate New York is set to be sentenced today in Essex County Court.

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A Montreal man found guilty of drowning his daughter in a creek in Upstate New York is set to be sentenced today in Essex County Court. asserted
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On Aug. 10, a jury in Elizabethtown, N.Y., found Luciano Frattolin guilty of second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in the death of nine-year-old Melina Frattolin. asserted
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