A veteran New York City police officer and his fiancée were arrested and charged with the murder of the man's 8-year-old son, who froze to death in an unheated garage, authorities say.
Cops responding to the scene at Michael Valva's home last week, initially w responding to reports of a boy who had fallen in the driveway.Michael Valva's story — that his son was trying to catch a school bus, fell and lost consciousness — soon came apart, according to Hart.
"We have determined Thomas was never in the driveway that morning and he suffered head and facial injuries that were not consistent with the father's account." Investigators said that this footage helped them find that Valva's surviving sons were punished with"food deprivation and exposure to extremely frigid temperatures," according to Hart.
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