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6 minutes ago
- CBC
Montreal girl allegedly killed by father was drowned, initial autopsy finds
'This is her soul's resting place,' says organizer of vigil honoring Melina Frattolin in Ticonderoga, N.Y. An autopsy has found that a nine-year-old Montreal girl allegedly killed by her father over the weekend was drowned. The preliminary findings of the autopsy, which were released on Tuesday by New York State Police, found Melina Frattolin died by asphyxia due to drowning and her death was a homicide. The results will have to be confirmed by further laboratory testing. Melina's body was found Sunday in the shallow water of a pond in Ticonderoga, N.Y., about 50 kilometres east of Lake George, near the New York-Vermont border. Her father, 45-year-old Montrealer Luciano Frattolin, was charged on Monday with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse. He appeared at the Ticonderoga town court on Monday. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf at his arraignment, according to court officials. His case is expected to return to court on Friday. Father 'fabricated' abduction: police In a news conference on Monday following Frattolin's arrest, New York State Police outlined the timeline of events. They say Frattolin first reported his daughter's disappearance to local police at around 10 p.m. last Saturday while they were travelling in the United States. An Amber Alert was triggered. Police say he told investigators that he'd left his car to urinate in a wooded area and that his daughter was gone when he returned. He reported a white van fleeing the scene southbound. In a subsequent interview, he mentioned two unknown men who forced Melina into the white van. New York State Police confirmed that the father had "fabricated the initial report of the abduction." 'She will be one of us' Details about how Melina died were released just hours before people gathered for a vigil at Percy Thompson Centennial Park in Ticonderoga — a small town of about 4,700 people located about 200 kilometres south of Montreal. There were speeches and solemn music, while candles were lit and people joined together in prayer. With her voice shaking, Bridgette Cruz, a Ticonderoga resident who organized the vigil, told the crowd that "no child should be left on the side of the road." "If this is where her sweet soul was found, then this is her soul's resting place," Cruz said. "She will be one of us." Prior to the event, Cruz told CBC News the vigil was meant to highlight the collective grief felt by people, including parents, on both sides of the border. "I feel like we kind of need a little closure here in this town for her," she said. Photogallery | Vigil for Melina Frattolin held in Ticonderoga, N.Y. Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Police seek public's help In addition to the preliminary autopsy findings, police released images of a grey 2024 Toyota Prius, the car in which the father and daughter travelled. They are urging anyone who saw it to contact authorities by calling 518-873-2750 or emailing crimetip@ They said they were specifically looking for people who may have come across the car driving in the areas of I-87 north between exits 28 and 20 on Saturday evening. Details of Frattolin's financial situation began to surface on Monday. He owes more than $150,000 to Scotiabank, according to two separate court cases. The bank alleges he entered into credit agreements between 2023 and 2024 related to his business, Gambella Coffee. Frattolin is also seeking more than $115,000 in damages from business partners whom he says he entrusted to run an Airbnb on Bernard Street in Montreal in 2022, according to court documents. On Monday, police said the investigation had not yet uncovered a possible motive for the alleged murder.
CTV News
35 minutes ago
- CTV News
Autopsy shows Montreal girl, 9, drowned in New York state; father charged with murder
Police say a nine-year-old girl whose body was found in New York state over the weekend died of asphyxia due to drowning.
Globe and Mail
2 hours ago
- Globe and Mail
Trump accuses Obama of treason over 2016 Russia probe, offers no evidence
U.S. President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of 'treason' on Tuesday, accusing him, without providing evidence, of leading an effort to falsely tie him to Russia and undermine his 2016 presidential campaign. A spokesperson for Obama denounced Trump's claims, saying 'these bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.' While Trump has frequently attacked Obama by name, the Republican president has not, since returning to office in January, gone this far in pointing the finger at his Democratic predecessor with allegations of criminal action. During remarks in the Oval Office, Trump leaped on comments from his intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, on Friday in which she threatened to refer Obama administration officials to the Justice Department for prosecution over an intelligence assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election. She declassified documents and said the information she was releasing showed a 'treasonous conspiracy' in 2016 by top Obama administration officials to undermine Trump, claims that Democrats called false and politically motivated. 'It's there, he's guilty. This was treason,' Trump said on Tuesday, though he offered no proof of his claims. 'They tried to steal the election, they tried to obfuscate the election. They did things that nobody's ever imagined, even in other countries.' Opinion: Donald Trump's corruption knows no bounds or precedent An assessment by the U.S. intelligence community published in January 2017 concluded that Russia, using social media disinformation, hacking and Russian bot farms, sought to damage Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign and bolster Trump. The assessment determined that the actual impact was likely limited and showed no evidence that Moscow's efforts actually changed voting outcomes. A 2020 bipartisan report by the Senate intelligence committee had found that Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort, the WikiLeaks website and others to try to influence the 2016 election to help Trump's campaign. 'Nothing in the document issued last week [by Gabbard] undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes,' Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush said in a statement. Trump, who has a history of promoting false conspiracy theories, has frequently denounced the assessments as a 'hoax.' In recent days, Trump reposted on his Truth Social account a fake video showing Obama being arrested in handcuffs in the Oval Office. Trump has been seeking to divert attention to other issues after coming under pressure from his conservative base to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Backers of conspiracy theories about Epstein have urged Trump, who socialized with the disgraced financier during the 1990s and early 2000s, to release investigative files related to the case. Trump sues Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch for Epstein birthday letter coverage Trump, asked in the Oval Office about Epstein, quickly pivoted into an attack on Obama and Clinton. 'The witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold,' Trump said. Trump suggested action would be taken against Obama and his former officials, calling the Russia investigation a treasonous act and the former president guilty of 'trying to lead a coup.' 'It's time to start, after what they did to me, and whether it's right or wrong, it's time to go after people. Obama has been caught directly,' he said. Democratic Representative Jim Himes responded on X: 'This is a lie. And if he's confused, the President should ask @SecRubio, who helped lead the bipartisan Senate investigation that unanimously concluded that there was no evidence of politicization in the intelligence community's behavior around the 2016 election.' Former Republican Senator Marco Rubio is now Trump's secretary of state. Since returning to office, Trump has castigated his political opponents whom he claims weaponized the federal government against him and his allies for the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters and his handling of classified materials after he left office in 2021. Picture of Trump after the assassination attempt displaces Obama portrait at the White House Obama has long been a target of Trump. In 2011 he accused then-President Obama of not being born in the United States, prompting Obama to release a copy of his birth certificate. In recent months, Trump has rarely held back in his rhetorical broadsides against his two Democratic predecessors in a way all but unprecedented in modern times. He launched an investigation after accusing former President Joe Biden and his staff, without evidence, of a 'conspiracy' to use an autopen, an automated device that replicates a person's signature, to sign sensitive documents on the president's behalf. Biden has rejected the claim as false and 'ridiculous.' Gabbard's charge that Obama conspired to subvert Trump's 2016 election by manufacturing intelligence on Russia's interference is contradicted by a CIA review ordered by Director John Ratcliffe and published on July 2, a 2018 bipartisan Senate report and declassified documents that Gabbard herself released last week. The documents show that Gabbard conflated two separate U.S. intelligence findings in alleging that Obama and his national security aides changed an assessment that Russia probably was not trying to influence the election through cyber means. One finding was that Russia was not trying to hack U.S. election infrastructure to change vote counts and the second was that Moscow probably was using cyber means to influence the U.S. political environment through information and propaganda operations, including by stealing and leaking data from Democratic Party servers. The January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment ordered by Obama built on that second finding: that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to sway the 2016 vote to Trump. The review ordered by Ratcliffe found flaws in the production of that assessment. But it did not contest its conclusion and upheld 'the quality and credibility' of a highly classified CIA report on which the assessment's authors relied.
