‘Because I said so’: Judge refuses to give frantic mother custody of her children after she claims they are starving and forced to sleep in garage. Now one of her sons is dead.
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Thomas Valva’s mother told the judge that her children were not being fed, were wearing urine-soaked clothes, and had been forced to sleep in the garage. The judge said she was talking to much, and refused to return the children to her