This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Thomas Valva, a young autistic boy who was abused and left to sleep in an unheated garage by his NYPD cop father and his evil stepmother.
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Source Material:
https://img.nyed.uscourts.gov/files/opinions/20cv2663MO06152022.pdf
https://abc7ny.com/thomas-valva-frozen-in-garage-forced-to-sleep-autism/5890771/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/nyregion/nypd-officer-son-freezing-death-guilty.html
https://abc7ny.com/thomas-valva-frozen-in-garage-forced-to-sleep-autism/5890771/
https://abc7ny.com/thomas-valva-michael-angela-pollina-child-froze-to-death/5883799/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16293306/
https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/how-abuse-mars-the-lives-of-autistic-people/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNzIi3nbRE&ab_channel=ScottWestgate
https://www.facebook.com/justina.valva.3
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https://abc7ny.com/angela-pollina-murder-trial-deliberations/13112379/
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