Officer accused of killing 8-year-old son with autism, whom he left to die in a cold garage.
A veteran of the new York police Department 40-year-old Michael Valvil and his 42-year-old bride Angela Pollina charged with second-degree murder on Friday, January 24, after the son of Valvil Thomas was found dead on January 17 at the family home on long island.
According to the police Commissioner Suffolk County Geraldine HART, when medics took him to a hospital long island, his body temperature was about 24.5 °C. the Coroner acknowledged the death a homicide.
According to sources in police, on January 16 Valve got mad at his son and began to beat the boy. After that the man was punished Thomas, leaving him in the garage all night.
The next day the child was dead. Sources said that Valve put the cold body of the boy into a warm bath to raise its temperature, and then told the police that Thomas fell on the road when waiting for the school bus.
In the report school district East Morich for 2018, obtained by Daily News, describes in detail about how Valve and Pollin neglected by Thomas and one of the sons of men.
«More worrisome is that Valve and his bride Angela don’t understand the depth of disability, Anthony and Thomas,» — said in a report dated 25 April 2018.
Thomas Valve. Source: GoFundMe
On Thursday, Valve was stripped of his badge and three guns. It suspended the service pending the investigation, sources told the Daily News. Valve works in the NYPD since 2005.
«Thank God, justice prevailed,» said Newsday on Friday, the mother of Thomas Justin Zubko-Valve, an employee of the correctional facility on Rikers island, who lives in Valley Stream.
She described her son as «a loving, happy boy, always looking for adventure.»
