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Luciano Frattolin is taken away in custody from the Essex County Court in Elizabethtown, New York on Friday, July 24, 2026. Luciano Frattolin charged with 2nd-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
By The Canadian Press

CP NewsAlert: Father receives life sentence in New York for murder of Montreal girl

Oct 14, 2026 | 2:00 AM

ELIZABETHTOWN — A Montreal man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his nine-year-old daughter and leaving her in a marsh in rural New York.

The sentence comes two months after a jury in Essex County Court convicted Luciano Frattolin of second degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in the death of Melina Frattolin.

Judge Tatiana Coffinger delivered the sentence after rejecting a motion to set aside the guilty verdict.

Frattolin would not be eligible for parole before 25 years.

The defence issued a notice of appeal following the sentence.

The jury spent an hour deliberating at the end of a trial on Aug. 10 before concluding that Frattolin had drowned his daughter in a marsh in a rural area of New York.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 14, 2026.

Marieke Glorieux-Stryckman, The Canadian Press

by The Canadian Press