{"id":1725484,"date":"2022-11-06T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725484"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:29:14","slug":"ex-cop-found-guilty-of-murdering-8-year-old-autistic-son-who-died-after-being-locked-in-freezing-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cop-found-guilty-of-murdering-8-year-old-autistic-son-who-died-after-being-locked-in-freezing-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Cop Found Guilty Of Murdering 8-Year-Old Autistic Son Who Died After Being Locked In Freezing Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-cop-found-guilty-of-murdering-8-year-old-autistic-son-who-died-after-being-locked-in-freezing-garage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> cop has been convicted of murdering his 8-year-old autistic son, who died of hypothermia after being left in an unheated garage over night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ex-cop Michael Valva, 43, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/04\/nyregion\/nypd-officer-son-freezing-death-guilty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> guilty of second degree murder by a jury in Long Island after his son Thomas died in January 2020 when he went into cardiac arrest due to being stuck in frigid conditions. The temperature in the garage, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/04\/ex-nypd-cop-michael-valva-found-guilty-of-murdering-autistic-son\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where<\/a> Thomas was locked with his brother Anthony for up to 16 hours, dropped to 19 degrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guilty verdict will not bring back 8-year-old Thomas, who suffered immense cruelty at the hands of his father,\u201d Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said after the jury\u2019s decision, before adding that the the former cop \u201cwill now pay for cutting short the life of a young, innocent, defenseless boy who had a lifetime ahead of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Valva was also convicted of four counts of child endangerment after the jury deliberated for less than one day on Friday. He could face up to 25 years in prison. After the verdict was handed down, John LoTurco, a defense attorney for Valva, said that he understood the decision but was disappointed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a significant amount of evidence against our client, and so we understand the verdict, we\u2019re disappointed in the verdict, but we understand it,\u201d LoTurco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=glBfitUj_C0&#038;t=134s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, LoTurco argued that Valva should not be facing second degree murder, but instead homicide and manslaughter charges because his client was not indifferent toward his son\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d have to believe that he had utter disregard for Thomas\u2019s life, that he simply did not care whether Thomas would die. And that\u2019s absolutely not true,\u201d he said, saying that prosecutors wanted to portray the former police officer as a \u201ccoldblooded monster, a werewolf with no love in his heart, who did not shed a tear over the death of his son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, it was revealed that the boy had defecated on himself while in the garage overnight, and in the morning Valva told him to take off his clothes and go outside to be hosed down. The boy slipped while outside and hit his head on the concrete.<\/p>\n<p>After various attempts by Valva to revive his son failed, including slapping and yelling \u201cwake up\u201d at the boy he called 911.\u00a0Thomas was found to only have a temperature of 76 degrees while at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>While trying to revive Thomas, one EMS worker claimed that the Valva had \u201cno emotion, no sense of concern\u201d after rescue workers had been told that the young boy had bumped his head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t throw an 8-year-old out into 19-degree weather naked after having him sleep on a cold garage floor and not expect that the child is going to be hypothermic,\u201d said Kerriann Kelly, a prosecutor for Suffolk County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Angela Pollina, Valva\u2019s former fiancee, is also facing second degree murder and child endangerment charges from the incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former New York City cop has been convicted of murdering his 8-year-old autistic son, who died of hypothermia after being left in an unheated garage over night.\u00a0 Ex-cop Michael Valva, 43, was found guilty of second degree murder by a jury in Long Island after his son Thomas died in January 2020 when he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1725493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}