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Cop & evil stepmom force 8-year-old Thomas Valva to freeze dead in cold garage · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. What would you do to
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Speaker 1: save the life of an eight year old little boy?
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Speaker 1: Would you jump at a river and swim to save
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Speaker 1: him and pull him to the shore. Would you run
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Speaker 1: into a burning building to pull the little boy out
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Speaker 1: to safety? Would you fight to keep an attack dog
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Speaker 1: from attacking the little boy? What would you do to
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Speaker 1: save an eight year old boy's life? What if it
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Speaker 1: was as simple as calling nine one one? What if
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Speaker 1: it was as simple as giving him something to eat?
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Speaker 1: What if it was as simple as giving him a blanket?
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace? Why did eight year old
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Speaker 1: Tommy have to die? Take a listen to our friends
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Speaker 1: at crime online dot Com. It's a cold February morning
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Speaker 1: in the teens when Long Island Police get a call
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Speaker 1: about a nun responsive child just nine forty am. According
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Speaker 1: to police dispatch, the boy fell in the driveway at
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Speaker 1: his home. When detectives arrived, Thomas Valvo's father is performing
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Speaker 1: CPR on the eight year old. Valvo is taken by
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Speaker 1: ambulance to Long Island Community Hospital, where he dies. Doctors
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Speaker 1: determined the boy's head and facial injuries are inconsistent with
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Speaker 1: the account of what happened once more. The boy's body
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Speaker 1: temperature is just seventy six degrees. Joining me an all
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Speaker 1: star panel to try and apply logic to this scenario
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Speaker 1: with me twenty seven years on Metro major case including
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Speaker 1: SWAT now turned lawyer James shell Nutt at Shelnut Law
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Speaker 1: Firm dot com. Doctor Jeff Gardeer, Board Certified Clinical Psychologist,
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Speaker 1: Professor Behavioral Medicine at truro at Doctor Jeff Gardeer with
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Speaker 1: Ane dot com, author of the Causes of Autism. Stephen Lampley, author, speaker,
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Speaker 1: former cop and undercover author of twelve and Murdered on
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Speaker 1: Amazon and you can find him at Stephen David Lampley
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Speaker 1: dot com. Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University. Author of Blood
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Speaker 1: Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Star of a brand new
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Speaker 1: hit series on the True Crime Network, Poisonous Liaisons. Joseph
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan with US death investigator and lead news anchor
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Speaker 1: for w DBO Ray Kimputo, Ray Kipputo, tell me who, what, where, when? Why?
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Speaker 1: Let's are with who? Who is the dead child? Well done?
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Speaker 1: Child is a precious little boy named Thomas Volva. He
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Speaker 1: was just a little light year old boy. Nance He
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Speaker 1: lived on Long Island. You know, said to know eight
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Speaker 1: year old kids, you can imagine what they're into, things
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Speaker 1: like video games and playing with their friends. So this
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Speaker 1: is a little eight year old boy who's into regular
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Speaker 1: things like every other eight year old boy. I know.
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Speaker 1: I remember when John David was eight years old, living
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Speaker 1: life with his family, his brothers and sisters there on
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Speaker 1: Long Island, and then we get a nine one one
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Speaker 1: call that he's dead in the driveway. Justice got Morgan
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Speaker 1: Death investigator. It was a developing story and it was
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Speaker 1: full of disturbing information. To fall in the driveway and
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Speaker 1: get lacerations on your head and skull and die from them,
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Speaker 1: that's one thing. But for your body temperature to be
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Speaker 1: set six degrees that's a whole another can of worms
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Speaker 1: right there. How does your body get down to seventy
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Speaker 1: six degrees? Well, it all goes to environment, doesn't it, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: So if you're in a contained area, for instance, where
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Speaker 1: the in what we call the ambient environmental temperature, that
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Speaker 1: that air that kind of surrounds your body from above, below,
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Speaker 1: and from the sides. If it is low, all right,
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Speaker 1: and you're not shielded. Your body's not shielded other than say,
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Speaker 1: your layer of fat and maybe a thin layer of
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Speaker 1: clothing your body, and it's just horrible to think about
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Speaker 1: literally assumes the environmental temperature or struggles to get down
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Speaker 1: to that level because you can't generate in her your
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Speaker 1: heat pump within your body can't keep up. The little
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Speaker 1: the little furnace in your body can't keep up any longer.
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Speaker 1: And so if you're talking about a small child, as
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Speaker 1: Ray had just mentioned, remember this little boy is only
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Speaker 1: eight years old, Nancy, we have assume he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: a lot of insulation on him, so his little body
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Speaker 1: is struggling all the time. And at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, you said your body is struggling to get
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Speaker 1: down to the ambiance temperature, in other words, the temperature
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Speaker 1: of your surroundings. But I thought your body struggled to
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Speaker 1: keep your temperature up to protect your internal organs. It does.
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Speaker 1: But well, which one is it, Joe Scott. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm just a trial lawyer, but even I can hear
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Speaker 1: it can't be both. Well, no, it can't. But there
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Speaker 1: is a paradoxical. It's paradoxical that occurs. Your body is fighting,
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Speaker 1: but you don't have the ability to fight, particularly at
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Speaker 1: this age, and with this low body weight, lack of insulation,
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Speaker 1: so it's being driven down by the forces of nature.
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Speaker 1: So you've got this paradox that's going. As a matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, interestingly enough, did you know that there's a
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Speaker 1: condition that's called paradoxical undressing with hypothermic people. They literally
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Speaker 1: begin to peel their clothes off the colder they get,
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Speaker 1: and it's this real weird thing. It happens in kind
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Speaker 1: of a fight or flight mode. So there's a lot
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Speaker 1: to unpack your relative to how your body interacts with
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Speaker 1: the environment, particularly cold environment. Answers, Okay, to clear up
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Speaker 1: my question to you, I believe your body struggles, as
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Speaker 1: you called it, your internal furnace to keep your temperature
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Speaker 1: around ninety eight point six. It does not struggle to
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Speaker 1: get your body down to the ambiance temperature in the room.
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Speaker 1: But paradoxical undressing your body and its effort that little
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Speaker 1: furnace you referred to, and its effort to keep your
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Speaker 1: body warm. Your brain starts thinking you are warm, and
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Speaker 1: people start taking their clothes off. I remember the first
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Speaker 1: time I saw that phenomena, just got morgan. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: believe that the person had died hypothermia because they had
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Speaker 1: taken all their clothes off. I thought someone had to
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Speaker 1: have done that to them, but no, People very often
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Speaker 1: removing their clothes because their body temperature, their furnace tells
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Speaker 1: them their brain that they're overheating because the body is
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Speaker 1: trying to overheat to protect these eternal organs. Did I
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Speaker 1: say that correctly, Joe Scott, Yes, ma'am, you did, and
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Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. It's one of the out of all
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Speaker 1: the death investigations that I've conducted over you know, gunshot
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Speaker 1: wounds many times are very simple compared to something like hypothermia,
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Speaker 1: because it's not just what's going on externally with the
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Speaker 1: body and those things that are kind of impacting body,
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Speaker 1: it's what's going on at a psychological from a psychological perspective,
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Speaker 1: somebody that's attempting to get warm and they can't get warm,
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Speaker 1: or they perceive themselves to be too warm, and so
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Speaker 1: it's an interesting way we're kind of engineered, and it's
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Speaker 1: a very difficult kind of death investigation to conduct. And
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Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley, author speaker, former cop undercover, author of twelve
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Speaker 1: and Murdered on Amazon, Steve Right off the bat, the
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Speaker 1: Cops think it doesn't jive because based on the nature
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Speaker 1: of the injuries, the lacerations to the face and the
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Speaker 1: skull versus the cold temperature of the little boy, those
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Speaker 1: two don't jive. What do you do in that situation
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Speaker 1: where you get to the home you find a child
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Speaker 1: who allegedly fell in the driveway, but it's not jiving
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Speaker 1: with the manner of death. Financi it depends on the injuries.
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Speaker 1: And in this case, it's my understanding that the police
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Speaker 1: officers saw the injuries, but it's my understanding when they
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Speaker 1: saw the injuries right off the bat, red flash popped up.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you fall, your injuries are going to
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Speaker 1: be in a certain location, depending on where or how
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Speaker 1: the circumstances that you fall. These injuries right off the
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Speaker 1: bat did not jive with a fall. And it's sing
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Speaker 1: Steve Lampley, I want to follow upon what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: To fall on a driveway, which in this case is
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Speaker 1: a smooth, albeit asphalt surface, is different from falling down.
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Speaker 1: Let's just pretend a flight of brick stairs. You fall
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Speaker 1: down brick stairs, you could get cuts lacerations all over yourself.
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Speaker 1: But when you take a single fall on a driveway.
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Speaker 1: You would expect, for instance, one blow, one major last
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Speaker 1: serration story at least on one side of the face
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Speaker 1: or head crime stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the death of an eight year old little boy.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends Stone grism It News
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Speaker 1: twelve Long Island disturbing information about the death of a
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Speaker 1: an eight year old boy released by police just a
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Speaker 1: short time ago. Police now say Michael Valva and his
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Speaker 1: fiance Angela Paulina left Thomas Valva in an unheated garage,
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Speaker 1: unheated and unfinished overnight in freezing temperatures. They say when
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Speaker 1: he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead,
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Speaker 1: his body temperature was seventy six degrees. As we first
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Speaker 1: told you, police responded to reports that the child fell
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Speaker 1: in the driveway of the home. This was on Bittersweet
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Speaker 1: Lane last week, but investigators say the eight year old
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Speaker 1: suffered head and facial injuries, inconsistent with those reports. The
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Speaker 1: couple also have five other children, including two other sons
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Speaker 1: and Polina's three daughters, so that six children in all,
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Speaker 1: What if anything can we learn from them? Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to. This was was Anthony and Tommy try to
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Speaker 1: ask for help, call or when they were inside the garage,
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Speaker 1: did you hear of them? Oh? Yeah, did you hear
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Speaker 1: the noise? Um? They were crying? He said that really
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Speaker 1: has a copy? Okay? And what happened that they couldn't
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Speaker 1: go inside the house. We had a w rapean they
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Speaker 1: are beholden and sometimes and joy and that stayed out
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Speaker 1: all day and Attie Thomas stayed home at the door
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Speaker 1: locked with the door locked, so they weren't able to
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Speaker 1: get out from the garage open. They had a holterpean hold.
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Speaker 1: They came back home. Did Anthony and Tommy said about
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Speaker 1: this to any anybody in school? No, because then it
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Speaker 1: will get because they will be punished for like three days.
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Speaker 1: And and what would be the punishment What would happened
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Speaker 1: to them? Thank you? Even for three days that could
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Speaker 1: be not again that ending at Nott doing anything? M hm.
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Speaker 1: They slapped in the bat slapping the bat? Would it hurt?
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Speaker 1: You were hearing the little brother that's Andrew speaking and
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Speaker 1: he's being asked by Justina Valva if he ever heard
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Speaker 1: his brothers in the garage. The little boy, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you could make it out, would say they
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Speaker 1: would cry when they had to go to the bathroom,
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Speaker 1: but they were forced to hold it in. The little boy,
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Speaker 1: the little Brother Andrew says that the parents would be
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Speaker 1: gone all day and lot with children in the garage
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Speaker 1: till they got home, but they would be beaten if
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Speaker 1: they told anyone at school about it. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to more of what the little Brother has to say.
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Speaker 1: Was there any other reason why that Angela put Anthony
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Speaker 1: and Tommy in the garage? Well, because they kept on
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Speaker 1: paying themselves, keep them peeing themselves. Yeah, because in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night they had to go peete okay,
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Speaker 1: mom loud of them, Oh good okay. And then they
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Speaker 1: kept on peeing their pins because they were about to
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Speaker 1: go in the middle to night the bathroom. And one
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Speaker 1: to stay up only just in the bathroom just to
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Speaker 1: prush my teeth. Why I had to prush my teeth? Big,
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Speaker 1: I didn't brush my teeth, and I had to And
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Speaker 1: I almost stated the bathroom for like three hours when
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Speaker 1: everyone was sleeping. But who told who? Who? You had
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Speaker 1: to stay there in the bathroom hunts fish pushing my teeth?
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Speaker 1: Who said bad Angela and dad angelin bad? Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: the voice you're hearing speaking to little brother Andrew is
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Speaker 1: their biological mother. That's just staying a zuko valva and
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Speaker 1: there's more. Brace yourself. Listen to this. When Tommy and
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Speaker 1: Anthony were in the garage today, get any food from that?
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Speaker 1: And Angela only once a day? Only once a day?
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Speaker 1: What was the food? What did they get to eat?
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Speaker 1: Just a sandwich vesset, just a sandwich. What are they
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Speaker 1: saying that they stated that they were hungry. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: what they were in the garage? Were you able to
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Speaker 1: go and visit them or you? People couldn't, I couldn't.
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Speaker 1: Why get trouble to get troubled too? Did you ever
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Speaker 1: see Anthony and Temia now or video camera from inside
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Speaker 1: the garage? Over? Was cameras in the garage too? There
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Speaker 1: were cameras in the garage because one the sailing and
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Speaker 1: one like buy the two our steps. Okay, so when
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Speaker 1: anthonyon time you were coming from school, feata go a
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Speaker 1: bengo in the garage? They gotta go, well fly go
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Speaker 1: in your house to get through and then go to
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Speaker 1: the garage. But for what what was the reason that
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Speaker 1: they would have to go in the garage? Media? Because
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Speaker 1: they kept on peeing in their pitch. Cool, But did
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Speaker 1: they have accidents in school? Oh so? Why? Why so?
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Speaker 1: If they didn't have accidents in school, that's because we
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Speaker 1: go to the bathroomid school, the teachers allows him, okay,
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Speaker 1: and will happen at Dadda's house. The opposite, the opposite.
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Speaker 1: You safe, no one, you're safe. You. I can hardly
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Speaker 1: stand to listen to it. Let me go out to
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Speaker 1: the professor of behavioral medicine at Turo College, author of
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Speaker 1: the Causes of autism. We know that Thomas, just eight
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Speaker 1: years old, was under the spectrum, doctor Jeff. You know what,
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Speaker 1: You and I have gone through a lot of cases together.
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Speaker 1: But when I hear the little brother Andrew talking about
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Speaker 1: what his brothers endured. Here you have an eight year
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Speaker 1: old boy. This wedding is pants and you know, doctor Jeff,
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Speaker 1: classic sign classic a child abuse. Of course, they're going
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Speaker 1: to wet their pants when they're putting a garage overnight. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: And so what we're seeing here are a couple of
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Speaker 1: things going on very quickly. First of all, don't be quick,
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Speaker 1: I want to hear every passive word. Okay, Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: first of all, they're not even allowing them to use
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Speaker 1: bathroom facilities properly. Number two, when just like any child,
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Speaker 1: sometimes they may wet themselves. Here they absolutely torture them.
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Speaker 1: And as part of that there now these kids are fearful,
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Speaker 1: absolutely horrifically in fear, which then is that feedback loop
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Speaker 1: which causes them to continue to go to the bathroom
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Speaker 1: on themselves. So it's a no win situation for them.
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Speaker 1: And the worst thing of all of this, of course,
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Speaker 1: is the constant and I'll say the word, the constant
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Speaker 1: torture of these children. Look, there are kids, of course
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Speaker 1: who experience, you know, bedwedding and who are potty trained
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Speaker 1: in their own time. But the constant pressure and again
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Speaker 1: the torture on these children were driving them to a
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Speaker 1: point of not only psychological exhaustion, but physical exhaustion and
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Speaker 1: complete and total fear. Time stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about the death of its beautiful eight
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Speaker 1: year old boy, Thomas Sava. No One one gets a
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Speaker 1: call that he fell in the driveway and died, but
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Speaker 1: when cops get there, the wounds to little Thomas's head
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Speaker 1: are not consistent with a single fall in the driveway
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Speaker 1: and his body temp seventy six degrees. James Shelnup. You
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Speaker 1: were on the force for nearly thirty years before you
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Speaker 1: go to law school way in Yeah, this situation is
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Speaker 1: just absolutely heartbreaking. I've got a child that's on the
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Speaker 1: Asperger's spectrum of autism, and then just to look at
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Speaker 1: this story and read this story is just heartbreaking. You know,
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Speaker 1: these kids, Nancy, are especially sensitive to things as well.
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Speaker 1: The autistic kids are sensitive to touch, he cold, sometimes
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Speaker 1: being yelled at, and you know that just magnifies the
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Speaker 1: torture of what it would be for even a child
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Speaker 1: that doesn't have ass purpose. It's just our break to you,
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Speaker 1: doctor Jeff. You actually wrote the book The Causes of Autism.
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Speaker 1: You can find doctor Jeff at doctor Jeff Guarder and
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Speaker 1: that's a gr D E r E dot com longtime
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Speaker 1: friend expert. We go all the way back to court
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Speaker 1: TV days, doctor Jeff. I'm just listening to what James
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Speaker 1: Shelnut is saying. What would it have been like for
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Speaker 1: not just a regular eight year old little boy, but
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Speaker 1: a little boy that's on the spectrum of autism, let's
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Speaker 1: just say just a very mild case. We see that
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Speaker 1: he's mainstream, he's going to regular school, but what would
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Speaker 1: that be to be in a freezing cold garage at night,
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Speaker 1: all night long, with no food and you can't go
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom where you'll be beaten. Absolutely, and James
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Speaker 1: is absolutely correct that for a child on the spectrum
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Speaker 1: having sensory issues at times, or issues communicating in a
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Speaker 1: way that verbally that they may want to and that
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Speaker 1: they're not able to makes it difficult enough for them.
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Speaker 1: So this was a child, obviously who may not have
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Speaker 1: completely understood the reasons that he was being tortured and
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Speaker 1: that others in his home were being tortured, but absolutely
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Speaker 1: felt the effects and may have felt it a million
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Speaker 1: times over. Given that we know children that are on
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Speaker 1: the spectrum, on the spectrum look for us as their
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Speaker 1: parents to protect them, to give them support and to
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Speaker 1: just have that warmth, and that was missing from the parents.
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Speaker 1: Certainly it wasn't part of living in a garage. And
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Speaker 1: so what happened here was murderous, unconsionable, absolutely horrific. It
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Speaker 1: brings tears to my eyes as I speak to you
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Speaker 1: about this right now. Well, I hope Shelna, Guardier, Lampley,
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Speaker 1: Morgan and Caputo are sitting down. You may need to
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Speaker 1: lay down to hear this one. This is our cut
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Speaker 1: fourteen Jackie, take a listen to our friends at w
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Speaker 1: ABC seven New York. This is Kristin Thorne speaking listen.
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Speaker 1: Prosecutors say investigators reviewed surveillance cameras from inside the couple's home,
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Speaker 1: that the couple had a camera inside the garage that
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Speaker 1: was labeled kid's room, and that two days prior to
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Speaker 1: Thomas's death, video showed Thomas and his brother sleeping inside
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Speaker 1: the garage shivering. It shouldn't get to the point that,
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Speaker 1: you know, my son lost his life to actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: for for for somebody to do do something these two pervs
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Speaker 1: put their children in a freezing cold garage and then
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Speaker 1: watch them shivering on then Annie Cam, Okay, do I
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Speaker 1: have that right? Ray Kaputo WDBO. Did they have a
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Speaker 1: camera focused on the garage titled kid's room? Nancy, you
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Speaker 1: you're correct, hit And it's just astonishing because if you've
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Speaker 1: ever lived in New York or a cold climate, you
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Speaker 1: know that garages become freezers infrigerators in the wintertime. In fact,
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Speaker 1: you don't even if you have soda, you don't even
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Speaker 1: need to put it in the fridge, You just leave
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Speaker 1: it in the garage. Okay, Gardier, we need a shrink.
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Speaker 1: What the hey, they've got it on video. You know
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Speaker 1: how many times I chase my daughter to make her
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Speaker 1: wear a hoodie, to try to entice her into wearing
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Speaker 1: tights or long pants and not be barre legged out
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Speaker 1: in the cold. Do you know how many times I
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Speaker 1: go in their room at night and check the temperature.
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Speaker 1: They haven't complained ever, but I'm constantly checking to make
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Speaker 1: sure they're okay and they're comfy, and it just makes
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Speaker 1: me happy on the inside to see them. I'll snuggle
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Speaker 1: down in their beds and everything's fine. I just I
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Speaker 1: just can't believe that they watch them on video freezing
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Speaker 1: literally freezing to death, and there are home guardier. That's right.
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Speaker 1: And it appears that the parents, Velva and Paulina what
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Speaker 1: they were doing where they were getting some sort of creepy,
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Speaker 1: eerie satisfaction out of watching these kids not only freeze
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Speaker 1: practically to death, but also the entertainment from watching the
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Speaker 1: suffering day today today. These were obviously not just murderous individuals,
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Speaker 1: but certainly sadist in every way one can imagine sick
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Speaker 1: freaks wrought in hell. That is a technical legal term
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Speaker 1: that only these two deserve to watch your baby freeze
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Speaker 1: dead in the garage on the nanny cam. And you've
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Speaker 1: got the garage labeled kid's room, and that's intent. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what is you label the garage kids ram
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Speaker 1: on the nanny cam feed that you get on your
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Speaker 1: cell phone or your laptop. But as you may have guessed,
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Speaker 1: this ain't the first time. Take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: cut ten. This is Kristen Thorne w ABC seven. It
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Speaker 1: was no secret the eight year old had been suffering.
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Speaker 1: CBS two obtained abuse complaint records and custody hearing transcripts.
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Speaker 1: Those judges seem like they just didn't care. What about
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Speaker 1: the case workers, the CPSKIS workers also they extremely responsible
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Speaker 1: for um what happened to Tommy? Twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Twenty one nine one one calls to Nasco police from
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Speaker 1: the couple's Valley Stream home, mostly visitation disputes. Twenty fifteen,
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Speaker 1: contentious divorce battle begins. Court transcripts. Twenty seventeen. Judge admonishing
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Speaker 1: the mother, Justina, who is representing herself desperately raising her
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Speaker 1: and he has failed to pick up our children twenty
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Speaker 1: nine times stopped talking, says the judge. Attorney for the children.
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Speaker 1: I believe it might be time for this court to
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Speaker 1: make a change in custody. Mother attempts to provide flash
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Speaker 1: drive of documented abuse children starving, accusations of physical abuse. Guy,
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Speaker 1: he said to me, very cure to your money, mister Murray,
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Speaker 1: Why men gay is gonna pull me outside? Judge appears
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Speaker 1: to wave away flash drive. Not at this time, she's
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Speaker 1: not complied with any order, says the judge, scolding Justina
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Speaker 1: for failure to bring boys to court appointed attorney and
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Speaker 1: dragging her feet on doctor's evaluation. September twenty seventeen, judge
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Speaker 1: awards temporary custody to the father order of protection issued
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Speaker 1: against Justina without explanation or without being required an explanation.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's just the tip of the ice, bark. Did
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Speaker 1: you hear how many nine on one calls there were?
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Speaker 1: Take a listen now to Shirley Chan pixieleven news. My
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Speaker 1: children were basically starved to death. Justina Valvet can't bring
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Speaker 1: back her eight year old son, Thomas, a special need
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Speaker 1: student with mild autism, but she can demand accountability from
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Speaker 1: the child welfare workers and judges who gave custody of
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Speaker 1: her three sons to ex husband Michael Valva and his
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Speaker 1: girlfriend Angela Polina. What do you have to say for yourself?
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Speaker 1: Valvet said her ten year old son was also forced
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Speaker 1: into Michael Valvet's freezing garage. He had frost bites on
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Speaker 1: his hands, on his legs. The East Moriches School District
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Speaker 1: had expressed concern about the two oldest boys in this
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Speaker 1: letter sent in April twenty eighteen. They were looking for
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Speaker 1: food on the classroom floor in the garbage. They were
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Speaker 1: coming to school wearing diapers. Angela Polina, a one time
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Speaker 1: hospital biller, also had three daughters living in the house
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Speaker 1: Gino Kelly is dead to the youngest, who is now eight.
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Speaker 1: I would watch Angelo physically abuse her twin girls before
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Speaker 1: the boys were involved. Before my daughter was even born.
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Speaker 1: She would beat one of the girls, break it up.
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Speaker 1: Didn't get their own natures. Going to call please? How
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Speaker 1: can I judge leave children in this situation? I want
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Speaker 1: to go out to Ray Kiputo, lead news anchor w DBO.
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing that children were visibly dirty, they were starving.
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Speaker 1: They would show up dirty and hungry to school. There
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Speaker 1: were all sorts of red flags, but nothing was done.
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Speaker 1: Why in the world would the judge leave custody with
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Speaker 1: this dad? Well, I mean, I mean they also smelled
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Speaker 1: what you're into, because they're wetting themselves. But you know
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Speaker 1: what the obvious reason is because the dad was an
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Speaker 1: NYPD cop and he was in the know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I can't find any other explication of that. We have
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Speaker 1: somebody who works with that system that also has people
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Speaker 1: that are deciding on things that partinue to his life.
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Speaker 1: So that's the only thing I can think of. But
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Speaker 1: on the top of that, judges have a lot of
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Speaker 1: work on their hands and they have to make, you know,
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Speaker 1: to subject the decision sometimes and it seems like this
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Speaker 1: guy just the people involved, the different people involved, because
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just one person, They just they took their
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Speaker 1: eye off the ball. And it's just absolutely crazy what
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Speaker 1: happened to this kid because of that crime Stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking about the death of an
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Speaker 1: eight year old little boy, Thomas Valva. In addition to
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Speaker 1: multiple custody disputes visitation calls, there were seventeen emergency calls
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Speaker 1: that were all explained away and dismissed. The mother in
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Speaker 1: court in court, begging the judge, saying, Anthony is sleeping
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Speaker 1: in the garage, his hands and feet are bright, Read
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Speaker 1: your honor, he's not getting food. And the judge says,
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Speaker 1: Miss Valva moved along. I can't remember everything you're saying
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Speaker 1: because you're saying so much. She says, Judge, CPS Shop
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Speaker 1: Protective Services not doing their job. They're closing the report
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Speaker 1: the very next day. And it goes on and on
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Speaker 1: and on. What's going to happen to this judge? Apparently
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Speaker 1: he has been brought up under the Judicial Conduct eleven
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Speaker 1: member panel. I guarantee you nothing's going to happen to him,
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Speaker 1: even after he did this and the little boy is dead.
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Speaker 1: I want to go to you. Joe's got Morgan weight
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Speaker 1: in on what you're hearing. Well, you know that from
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Speaker 1: an investigative standpoint, Nancy, there is a lot that we
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Speaker 1: can do as investigators kind of paint the picture of
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Speaker 1: what these children and not just poor little Thomas, but
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Speaker 1: all of these children moving forward, because what happens is
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Speaker 1: is that the body literally leaves you little clues along
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Speaker 1: the way. And at Thomas's autopsy, for instance, when they
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Speaker 1: were examining him, you know, if we can go back
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Speaker 1: to those injuries that he had on his head, those
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Speaker 1: aren't the only injuries he had, Nancy, I can almost
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Speaker 1: guarantee you that they're not. So what you can do
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Speaker 1: is actually age in these injuries. There's also gonna be
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Speaker 1: evidence of things like in my understanding, the word malnourishment
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Speaker 1: has come up. You're gonna have changes in the teeth.
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Speaker 1: The teeth will rotten, sometimes they'll fall out because of
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Speaker 1: lack of food. You'll get receiving gumblines as a result
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Speaker 1: of this, and the aging of the bruising. Remember that
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Speaker 1: interview that we heard just a moment ago where mom
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Speaker 1: was talking to one of the kids and she was
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Speaker 1: talking about smacking them on the bottom. Well, how many
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Speaker 1: of these injuries have occurred, and we can age those bruises.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, you know, going back to malnourishment, and
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Speaker 1: this is what I'll say about it. You'll see things
30:53
Speaker 1: with malnourishment. First off, obviously, in Thomas's case, you could
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Speaker 1: see an absence of fat. And we people talk baddly
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Speaker 1: about fat. We need fat, we need fat as energy storage,
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Speaker 1: and we need fat as insulation. This kid would not
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Speaker 1: have had this there, and you would have seen a diminishment,
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Speaker 1: there would have been skin changes where skin looked literally
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Speaker 1: like an old person, if you will, and he's supposed
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Speaker 1: to be vibrant, young Nancy eight years old. So there's
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Speaker 1: going to be a horrific picture that will be painted
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Speaker 1: in court relative to all not just Thomas, but all
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Speaker 1: of these kids, to show that there is something very
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Speaker 1: insidious here. Doctor Jeff had mentioned just a moment ago,
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Speaker 1: how you know they have these cameras in there and
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Speaker 1: this picture that we're painting Nancy. I want to use
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Speaker 1: the word here. These people seem like sadist, not satanist,
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Speaker 1: but sayist, where they're literally watching their kids go into
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Speaker 1: total and complete physical and mental diminishment. Guys, take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friend Jennifer mcclogan at CBS two. Still
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Speaker 1: the three sons moved in with NYPD, father Michael Valva,
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Speaker 1: and fiancee Angelo Paulina twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen twenty
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Speaker 1: Calls from East Marrige's teachers to child protection hotlines, missing school,
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Speaker 1: black eye lacerations, hungry, visible dirt on body, you're in
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Speaker 1: soak clothing. Father blame this on playground mishaps. The special
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Speaker 1: led teacher wrote not allowed to eat breakfast because they
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Speaker 1: did not use their manners. Five suffix CPS case workers
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Speaker 1: investigated the series of reports in twenty nineteen and concluded
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Speaker 1: did not rise to level of immediate or impending danger
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Speaker 1: of serious harm. No controlling interventions are necessary at this time.
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Speaker 1: Over and over and over, Child Protective Services drops the ball.
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Speaker 1: Now the mother says, no one would listen, No one
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Speaker 1: would listen. Back out to you, Ray Kaputo, what was
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Speaker 1: the judge thinking? And what do we know about what's
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Speaker 1: happening to that judge. Well, the judge is being reviewed
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Speaker 1: right now. I believe, as you mentioned, but I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's just astonishing. I don't know anybody can have faith
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Speaker 1: in a person like this. You know, it wasn't just
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Speaker 1: a mom crying out. The mom even had like a
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Speaker 1: city school teacher who was her neighbor come out. You know.
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Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe that this person could
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Speaker 1: have ignored all these these flags and still been virtuous
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Speaker 1: over this. I mean, to me, none of this makes sense, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: absolutely none of it. And you know, just to tell
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Speaker 1: you we get with the torture that was going on.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's reserved for rogue countries, what they do
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Speaker 1: to prisoners of war, not an NYPD officer doing it too.
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Speaker 1: It's eight year old autistic kid, and it's hard to
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Speaker 1: believe that this judge couldn't have caught wind of any
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Speaker 1: of this stuff going on from from the cries of
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Speaker 1: the mom. It's just all astonishing. Even with the biomem
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Speaker 1: begging the judge to give her custody, the judge kept
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Speaker 1: telling her to be Quay stopped talking, that she was
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Speaker 1: the one that was not complying. Why because daddy was
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Speaker 1: on the police force. Why has this happened? I want
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Speaker 1: you to take a listen. Here she is talking to
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Speaker 1: Christian Thorne w ABC seven. Justina Zuko Valva says no
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Speaker 1: one listened to her or her eight year old son,
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Speaker 1: Thomas Valva about alleged abuse at the hands of Thomas's father,
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Speaker 1: Michael Valva. The forty year old NYPD officer, and his fiancee,
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Speaker 1: Angela Paulina have been charged with murder. Police say last
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Speaker 1: week the couple left the boy, who had autism, overnight
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Speaker 1: in the garage of their Center Morich's home, when it
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Speaker 1: was only nineteen degrees out at the time of his
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Speaker 1: arrival at the hospital, Thomas's body temperature was seventy six degrees.
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Speaker 1: In last days, we learn of a multi million dollar lawsuit.
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Speaker 1: A two hundred million dollar lawsuit filed by the mom
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Speaker 1: and names the principal at Thomas's school, the Union, the
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Speaker 1: East Mauritius Union Free School District, the district's superintendent as defendants,
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Speaker 1: along with Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Judge Hope Shorts
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Speaker 1: Zimmerman that reportedly made that fateful decision to give the
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Speaker 1: boys back to dad, attorneys Donna McCabe Ethan Halpern, who
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Speaker 1: had been appointed to represent the children in court. The
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Speaker 1: lawsuit also names the county attorney for Suffolk County Department
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Speaker 1: Social Services, including Thomas's father, Michael Valva, and his fiance
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Speaker 1: his live in Angela Paulina. Why defacts Department Family Children's Services, judges, enablers,
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Speaker 1: court appointed lawyers can't get hard jailed time for standing
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Speaker 1: by and watching this little boy literally starve and freeze
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Speaker 1: to death. I don't know. We wait as just as sunfalls.
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crimes Stories, signing off goodbye friend,