Former police officer who let his 8-year-old autistic son freeze to death is sentenced to 25 years in jail

an ex-policeman New York He was sentenced this Thursday to between 25 years in prison and life for having let his autistic son freeze to death when he was 8 years old, after forcing him to sleep a whole winter night in a garage, reports the local press.

The boy Thomas and his brother, both autisticthey suffered frequent mistreatment by their father and the lover of the latter, Angela Pollina -who will be tried later in February for “second degree murder”-, and children were often sent to school undernourished, poorly dressed, and with bruises on their bodies.

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On the day of the events, in January 2020, the boy had spent the whole night, in sub-zero temperatures, in the garage of his house, and his father found him cold in the morning, but since he had urinated on himself, ordered him to undress, after which the child fell to the ground, according to the audios heard during the trial.

Even seeing him in that state, It took Michael Valva an hour to call emergency services (911)so when the child arrived at the hospital, already entered dead.

The prosecutor said in delivering the verdict today that this was “one of the most difficult and heartbreaking cases I have seen in my thirty-year career.”

Though Valve He had been indifferent during the six weeks that the trial lasted, as described by the New York Times, today he appeared dejected, and read with a broken voice some words in which he highlighted feeling “ashamed” and “sorry” for what happened, in addition to insist that she “loved” Thomas with all her heart.

Source: Elcomercio

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