Angela Pollina, who faces murder charges in the 2020 death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva, would unload ‘vicious outbursts’ at the boy before his death, a witness said.
would unload “vicious outbursts” at the cop’s autistic son before the 8-year-old boy was found frozen to death in the couple’s Long Island home, a witness testified at her murder trial.
Angela Pollina, 45, who is charged in the Jan. 17, 2020 death of little Thomas Valva in the East Moriches home, was in the habit of cursing and screaming at the boy, piano teacher Tina Licari testified Tuesday,“I would hear almost like [a] zero to 100 explosion,” Licari, who gave weekly lessons to one of Pollina’s daughters, told the jury on Tuesday. “She’d be screaming.”
Licari said Pollina and her ex-cop beau even mocked Thomas’ autism, mocking him when he didn’t answer questions they shouted at him. “‘That’s right because you can’t talk,'” Licari recalled Pollina screaming. She said Pollina then snickered at the defenseless boy. Angela Pollina, 45, is on trial on murder charges in the 2020 freezing death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva, the autistic son of former NYPD cop Michael Valva.Pollina is charged with second-degree murder and child endangerment. At the start of her trial Monday, Suffolk County prosecutors told jurors that Pollina is as guilty of the boy’s cruel hypothermia death as the disgraced former cop.
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