Apr 11, 2023 · Angela Pollina, the Long Island stepmom from hell who admitted that she forced her 8-year-old autistic stepson to sleep in a frigid garage the night before he died, was sentenced to 25 years to...

Mar 11, 2020 · According to Suffolk County prosecutors, Thomas, who had been diagnosed with autism, died not from the fall but from alleged longterm abuse at the hands of Valva and his fiancée, Angela Pollina.

Apr 12, 2023 · Thomas Valva died of hypothermia on 17 January 2020, after spending the night on the frigid floor of his NYPD officer father’s garage. He was only eight years old.

Apr 11, 2023 · Thomas Valva and his brother were made to sleep in a freezing Long Island garage -- and subjected to other torturous abuse, prosecutors said; the father, Michael Valva, and stepmom, Angela...

Dec 9, 2022 · Michael Valva, 43, was handed down the maximum sentence in the January 2020 death of his 8-year-old son Thomas Valva, who died after a night of sleeping in an unheated garage.

Mar 11, 2020 · The brother of the tragic Long Island boy left to freeze to death in an unheated garage has detailed the heartbreaking abuse he claims was handed out by their NYPD cop dad charged with the ...

Dec 11, 2022 · Michael Valva, 43, was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2018 hypothermia death of his son, Thomas Valva. Valva forced the little boy to sleep naked in the freezing garage of his Long...

Apr 4, 2024 · Valva, 44, and Polina, 46, were found guilty in the boy’s heartbreaking 2020 death after he was left locked in a freezing garage overnight without a blanket or protective clothing.

Mar 10, 2023 · Valva and his older brother Anthony spent 16 hours in the garage of the Suffolk County home with no heat, on a night when the temperature outside plunged below freezing, according to...

Jun 21, 2022 · The mother of an 8-year-old who froze to death in his father's garage can press her $200 million lawsuit against child protective services officials, the boy's school, the county and others, a federal judge ruled.