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Officer Charged in Murder of Son, 8, Kept in Freezing Garage, Police Say “Get your hands off his mouth”: Audio was captured hours before the boy’s death at the hands of his N.Y.P.D. father, officials said. Officer Michael Valva was arrested and charged on Friday with killing his 8-year-old son. Credit... Johnny Milano for The New York Times By  Rebecca Liebson Jan. 24, 2020 The voices were captured by household surveillance equipment. “Get your hand off his mouth,” a woman says. “There’s people everywhere.” The woman, Angela Pollina, was talking to her fiancé, Michael Valva, a New York City police officer. The mouth she was urging him to remove his hand from belonged to his son, Thomas, an 8-year-old with autism, officials said. Not long after the recording was made, the authorities said, Thomas Valva was dead. He had been kept overnight in the couple’s unheated Long Island garage as the temperature outside plunged t...