A Montreal businessman has been charged with second-degree murder and the concealment of a corpse after the body of his nine-year daughter, Melina, was found over the weekend in New York state, where the two were are vacation.

Luciano Frattolin, a Montreal entrepreneur who once proudly highlighted his devotion to his daughter and commitment to socially conscious business values, is now at the center of a heartbreaking and deeply disturbing criminal case in upstate New York.

Luciano Frattolin killed his nine-year-old daughter in a remote wooded area in upstate New York, then concealed her body underneath a log in a waterway, cops allege in new criminal complaint Monday.