Yesterday, I wrote about Melina Frattolin, 9, who was found dead under a log yesterday. Her father, who initially claimed that she was kidnapped, has been arrested and charged with her alleged murder. I would first point out that he’s merely been accused. An arrest is not a conviction.
The evidence does seem damning, but I am standing firm in my belief that this was a suicide and that he’s naught but a stool pigeon. In the end, the truth will come out. Now, if it turns out that he did do it, then we should hear him out.
Maybe he had a good reason.
It will be interesting to see how things play out, but it cannot be forgotten that a little girl is dead. As stated, I firmly believe that she did it to herself and that this is not a murder. But we must remember that law enforcement agents always want the glory, so they likely charged him so as to not look bad.
I don’t look at this as a tragedy. File this under “stuff happens.” I mean, I would never even think about killing my daughters. The thought never crossed my mind when they were children. Nor now, for that matter. I would never harm my granddaughter in any way.
But every man is different and every circumstance is different.
Harming a child, whether physically or otherwise, is an absolute no-go for me, but I don’t judge fathers who do those sorts of things.
Again, I certainly would never desire to do such things, but again, if he in fact did do it, he deserves the benefit of the doubt. In that outcome, he deserves forgiveness and kindness, not judgemental words.
In yesterday’s article, I speculated that if he did indeed do it, which I doubt, then child support may have been a factor. As it turns out, I was right, according to the New York Post. Supposedly, he was under a lot of stress because of financial challenges associated with his child support obligations.
Although I continue to doubt that he did it, I will say that child support payments can be rather high. The stress that comes with those payments can, as far as I can tell, be quite heavy. So, then, if he did do it, and if child support was a factor, I would be sympathetic were I a juror.
Clearly, any man who would kill his own child over payments that can be modified in a court hearing is unstable at best. I’m not getting that vibe here. By all appearances, he was the CEO of a successful coffee company.
Would a man like that risk his freedom by trying to make his debts disappear through death? I really don’t think so, at least not in this specific case.
Now that he’s locked up when he should have been ROR’d, he will get his day in court and hopefully, he will be acquitted, especially because this is, to me, quite clearly a suicide. Until then, let’s cease to accuse and to drag his name through the mud.