Amanda Wildman worked for Thomas Valva's family from 2017 to 2018
The former nanny of Thomas Valva, the 8-year-old boy who froze to death after his father and
says the blended Long Island family was a far cry from the wholesome image they presented, which she likened to“I felt like they wanted to be this large, perfect family and it was like they wanted the big house, the big family, the happy life,” Amanda Wildman tells PEOPLE of Michael Valva and his fianceé Angela Pollina. “But Angela didn’t want nothing to do with those boys.”
Valva and Pollina were charged with second-degree murder after Thomas, who had autism, died of hypothermia in the family’s Center Moriches home on Jan. 17. His father had told police his son had fallen in the driveway while waiting for the school bus, but investigators later discovered video and audio evidenceThomas and his brother sleeping in the garage shortly before his death, and Valva taunting his son for being cold the day he died.
Wildman worked for the couple for one year, from 2017 to 2018. During that time, she says she never witnessed any physical abuse but alleged she saw Pollina repeatedly verbally abuse the children, especially the boys.When Wildman heard about Thomas’s death, she went straight to police: “I knew the detectives had a lot of insight about the outside of their life but I was inside of it,” she says.
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