Angela Pollina gets 25 years for murder in hypothermia death of 8-yr-old autistic boy Thomas Valva
John Parsons
Published Jan 12, 2026
SUFFOLK District, NEW YORK: Angela Pollina was viewed as at legitimate fault for second-degree murder and kid danger in the demise of her ex Michael Valva’s, 8-year-old child, Thomas Valva. This decision was declared on Friday, Walk 10, and it finishes up the long preliminary against Michael and Pollina. Presently, Pollina faces 25 years of life in jail.
Thomas Valva, a kid enduring with mental imbalance, the child of previous NYPD official, Michael Valva, passed on from hypothermia on a 19-degree day at Long Island People group Medical clinic on January 17, 2020. The kid had to rest on the carport floor due to bedwetting issues which prompted his horrendous passing.
At the hour of his demise, investigators said Thomas Valva’s internal heat level had tumbled to almost 76 degrees. He likewise had a head injury, a persistent kidney contamination from holding in his pee, depressed hips, alopecia, and no muscle versus fat.
Pollina, 45, at last conceded that she constrained Thomas and his more established sibling, Anthony, to rest in the freezing carport of the contorted couple’s Middle Moriches home the night prior to the youngster’s demise.
“I put them in the carport. It was awful. Indeed, I did; I banished them,” she said. She likewise admitted that she erased implicating film from the family’s Home camera with an end goal to safeguard herself.
Pollina’s relationship with the young man At the hour of the young man’s passing, Pollina was locked in to and living with Thomas’ dad, Michael Valva. Valva, 43, was additionally indicted for the homicide of his own child and was condemned to 25 years in jail.
Pollina needed the young men to go live with their organic mother, Justyna Zubko-Valva, who lost care after the separation, so Pollina treated the young men severely and, surprisingly, helped Valva in allowing them to rest in the carport.
‘Thomas was tormented’ Collaborator Lead prosecutor Kerriann Kelly, be that as it may, showed no tolerance with Pollina. She said,”[Pollina] constrained him out into the virus! Thomas was tormented and kicked the bucket for the transgression of being medically introverted. [Thomas] was not permitted in the house, not permitted to utilize a restroom. That was all a direct result of this respondent.”
Examiners called Pollina’s long periods of abuse of Thomas as ‘malicious, fiendish, barbaric, and corrupted.’ Presently, Pollina is condemned to 25 years of life in jail, equivalent to Valva, for the homicide of youthful Thomas.