Ex-Cop Who Forced 8-Year-Old Son to Sleep in Freezing Garage Goes on Trial
Prosecutors painted a grim picture Wednesday of the lives led by two special needs children whose father now stands trial for the murder of one of them — 8-year-old Thomas Valva, who died after spending a frigid winter night locked in the unheated garage of his father’s Long Island home. Forty-three-year-old Michael Valva, a former …









