A grand jury has indicted the father of a nine-year-old Montreal girl found dead in New York state for murder.
Luciano Frattolin appeared before Judge Tatiana Coffinger today in Elizabethtown, N.Y., and pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and the concealment of a human corpse.
Melina Frattolin, 9, was found drowned in a shallow pond on July 20 in Ticonderoga, N.Y., by the Vermont boundary.
Police have said Frattolin originally reported his daughter missing and potentially abducted, but officers determined the story to be false.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney confirmed that Frattolin’s case was presented to a grand jury, which returned a true bill of indictment….