Posted on 07/22/2025 2:09:13 PM PDT by Angelino97
The Canadian dad accused of killing his 9-year-old daughter is in massive debt, struggled to pay child support — and made bizarre posts about how the little girl disrupted his life.
Luciano Frattolin, 45, claimed to have a high-flying lifestyle as a coffee company owner, but when he appeared in court Monday to answer charges that he murdered his daughter, Melina, during a trip to upstate New York, he told a judge that he was broke and couldn’t afford a lawyer.
Frattolin, who was born in Ethiopia, spoke glowingly of Melina on his corporate bio page for his Montreal-based java company, Gabella Coffee, calling her “beautiful” and “the light of his life.’’
He conceded he had to learn to live with his daughter’s “messy art projects” and “chaotic” toys because of his obsession with keeping “perfect order” in his home.
In the bio — which has since been scrubbed from the internet — he also alludes to a life of painful hardships he’s had to endure, including “incidences of racism,” “feelings of isolation” and the death of his father as a teenager.
Frattolin hints at an “unfortunate event” in 2019 that he said “severely affected his well-being” and necessitated a “long and arduous” road to recovery.
Cops said at a press conference Monday he became estranged from his former wife that year.
In addition to grappling with past demons and a strained relationship with his ex, Frattolin was more than $200,000 in debt stemming from business dealings in Montreal.
The flailing entrepreneur had rented a property in the hip Montreal enclave of Mile End since 2020, which he sublet as an Airbnb, according to a report in La Presse...
But his lease was terminated by the landlord in August 2024 when he fell $26,000 behind on rent.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Sort of sounds like the Post is making a horrible excuse for what the guy did to his own daughter—he murdered her.
Child support can cripple a man.
All Canucks are greasy foreigners.
“”Child support can cripple a man.”””
Then he should have unalived himself.
No, the Post is trying to creating outrage with the father's excuses.
Outrage sells papers.
Horrible
too bad this piece of human garbage didn’t commit his crimes in canada ... he just had to come over here and foul our waters ... regardless, would love to see this bastard hang ... literally ... and using the “short-drop” method to boot ...
Only if you are living a lifestyle you can’t afford.
Should have returned the child to her mother and killed himself. She looks pretty disgusted in that photo where he is crouched beside her.
Better the man than the child.
Sick.
Probably a damn good guess.
How much of the child support goes in the mother’s pockets ?
When I see the excess the govt gives out for food stamps, I wonder just how much a child needs or is it the mother’s greed.
I know I will be flamed — there are always more than one side to every issue.
If he is found guilty of having murdered her he should be executed immediately.
Thanks Dad!
This is a sick story... The man doesn’t even deserve a proper trial. Take him to the back of the courthouse and shoot him in the head... That’s what he deserves.
PURE EVIL!!!!
WTF has happened to so many blacks???
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