The judge said, “My only regret is they do not have a garage there,” referring to the prison where Angela Pollina will serve her sentence
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FILE PHOTO: Angela Pollina, takes the stand to testify in her murder trial for the second day in Judge Tim Mazzei's courtroom at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, New York, on March 8, 2023. A stepmother who was called “wanton, evil and cruel” by prosecutors in New York has been sentenced to the maximum penalty for causing the death of her 8-year-old stepson.A jury convicted Angela Pollina last month of the murder of Thomas Valva.
Officials said Pollina and the boy’s father, to whom she was engaged, took the punishments of Thomas and his brother to extreme measures, including starvation and being locked in a freezing garage for hours,Thomas and his brother were forced to sleep in the family’s garage, which had no heat, and when the temperatures outside were below freezing.
The brothers, who both had autism, were sent to the garage for relieving themselves in the home during the winter in early 2020. The children were also not allowed inside the home to bathe, rather they were hosed down with cold water in the backyard. Thomas died of hypothermia. His core temperature was 76 degrees when he was taken to a hospital the day he died.She told the court when asked if she could have done better or treated the children better, “I did the best that I could,”
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