I’ve written a couple of articles about little Melina Frattolin, 9, who recently died in upstate New York. In those articles, I posited that she may have committed suicide. Well, folks, I can admit when I’m wrong. She died, of course, but not by her own hand.
Her father, Luciano Frattolin, is in custody and stands accused of allegedly murdering his own daughter and then hiding her body under a log. He is accused of drowning her. The accusations being thrown around the water cooler that he was stressed out because of child support payments.
Now, let us not forget that although he’s Canadian, he does have rights here in the United States given that he was arrested for allegedly doing the things that he’s accused of doing. Most importantly, he is to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law, not the court of public opinion.
It seems that X and the internet as a whole have already tried and convicted him and that goes against everything that America stands for. Sure, it looks bad for him, but that does not mean anything. He hasn’t even been indicted yet. And when that happens, an indictment is not a conviction.
I would never have thought to do any sort of harm to either of my daughters. I can’t picture killing the very lives that I helped bring into this world. Sadly, some parents do kill their children, and it looks bad for this guy. Very, very bad in fact. But he deserves his day in court!
The Daily Mail is reporting that someone who claims that she’s a witness, claimed that she saw a suspicious man running. Apparently, she “thinks” it was the father. Well, that’s simply not good enough! So far, all we have is her word.
Even if she did see the father, all she saw is him running. She conveniently did not see him do anything with a log. Perhaps that’s because he didn’t do it and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If she was so concerned, I would say that she should have whipped out her phone and taken pictures or video. Now, I’m not calling her a liar. All I am saying is that so far, as far as we the public knows, all we have is her word, and I rarely take people at their word, especially when a man’s freedom is in the crosshairs.
Now, if I were on the jury, I would want to hear him out, assuming that he did in fact do it. What’s his side of the story? What mitigating circumstances are there? Maybe he had a good reason, who knows? The point is that he does not deserve to be torn apart online as he has been since even before he was actually arrested.
Now, if he did do it, and if the child support payments are what caused him to do it, well, it’s understandable. I don’t know how it is in Canada, but here in the United States, child support enforcement is very serious business.
States and the federal government can and will come after a non-custodial parent for anything and everything. Paychecks, bank accounts, social security, lottery winnings, disability and unemployment benefits…the list goes on and on.
So, then, it’s easy to sympathize with his situation. Maybe he just snapped, again assuming that he did it. Are there any witnesses? Anything other than circumstantial evidence? So far, as far as the public knows, there is neither. That looks great for him.
Anyway, what’s done is done. Now we have to sit back and watch the justice system do what it’s meant to do. Given the lack of witnesses and lack of rock solid evidence, I would point out that it’s quite possible that anyone could have done it.
Hell, I could have done it! But then again, I have no interest in harming children in any way and I was nowhere near where the incident occurred.
No, there are no witnesses and the only evidence that they have is that her body was concealed under a log. There’s no footage of him doing the deed. There’s….nothing, really. All we have is law enforcement agents acting out of rage rather than justice.
The next few months and maybe years will tell the tale. Remember: an indictment is almost certain, but that doesn’t mean a thing. All I’m saying is let him tell his side of the story. Even if he did do it, I would be willing to let him say his piece. He deserves that much.
So, let’s knock it off with the armchair lawyering and let the justice system work. If he’s innocent, and I suspect that he is given the lack of evidence, then leave him alone.
If he’s convicted and actually did do it, then he’ll probably pay dearly unless he can prove some sort of mental defect. Let’s just let it all play out and refrain from reacting out of rage as opposed to acting like rational adults.