Ex-Cop Found Guilty Of Murdering His Own 8-Year-Old Autistic Son
Michael Velva, an ex-NYPD comp, was found guilty of second-degree murder for killing his own eight-year-old autistic son. He was convicted after forcing the child to sleep in an unheated garage in 19 degrees in the dead of winter. A Suffolk County, New York, jury unanimously found Michael Valva guilty of second-degree murder and four counts of child endangerment following the Jan. 2020 death of his son Thomas Valva. Young Thomas was on the autism …