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A jury has found Michael Valva guilty on all counts, including second-degree murder, in the death of his son Thomas Valva.

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The former NYPD officer faces 25 years to life after being convicted of the top charge.&nbsp;

The decision was reached at 6:03 p.m. Friday following less than a day of jury deliberations.

Members of the jury asked to hear the father's 911 call, see some photos in evidence and watch the two-hour clip of surveillance footage from the day that Thomas Valva died before they reached their verdict.

In closing statements Thursday, Valva's defense said the Center Moriches father loved his son Thomas and did what he could try to save him on the day he died.

Meanwhile, prosecutors told jurors that Michael Valva beat, starved and emotionally abused his sons Thomas and Anthony for months.

Prosecutors also said he treated Thomas Valva so poorly in the final moments of his life that he should be convicted of the top murder charge.

Thomas Valva died of hypothermia. Prosecutors say his father repeatedly made him and his brother sleep in their unheated garage in winter.

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The former NYPD officer faces 25 years to life after being convicted of the top charge.

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Hopefully you can enjoy it. Check out the sunrise this morning doesn't exactly look cold, but it was a cold start to the day. Still quite a few people out on the boardwalk, enjoying the nice weather and the fresh air that was by Andre Navarro. A fantastic photo. What you can expect overnight is temperatures near 30 degrees. It's cold but it's quiet. Tomorrow, we get up to about 41 some sun in the morning. A couple of clouds in the afternoon just with the cold air in place. A storm is passing to our south that might bring in a very brief Sprinkle or flurry. I think the best chance for that is around the east end. So most of you will end up staying dry and the cold will kind of settle in for the next two days. So 6 1535 Glen Cove, 36 in Medford. You see through the day, we kind of a hard time getting to 40 degrees. We'll do it briefly. Skies will clear at night. Thursday, we'll start off with some sun again. We are in the twenties to near 30 but not much of a wind. So it won't feel that bad. And in the afternoon trying to get up to 40 you do see that extra cloud cover around with the cold air. Now, by Friday skies are clearing, we get more of a southwest wind and temperatures begin to warm up. So Friday afternoon will be nice and seasonable. We hit about 50 Saturday sunny skies around the tri state temperatures in the low to mid fifties. So definitely that mild feel and then our weather will change late Sunday. So the good news is now that most of Sunday will be dry. The rain is trending later in the day. This is four o'clock rains on our doorstep. Most of this wet weather is not going to come through um until even after eight o'clock. So this is more of a Sunday evening, Sunday night thing and the rain will clear by Monday morning. So it's fast moving, but when the front passes by, it will be windy. So just kind of keep that in mind if you're going to be traveling. So cold weather will settle in for tomorrow and Thursday temp me 4050 sat uh Friday, Saturday looks amazing. There's that rain on Sunday with highs near 60 will clear out and get back to cooler weather for next week.

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Jury finds Michael Valva guilty on all counts, including second-degree murder, in death of his son Thomas

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Kristen McNally was inside the courtroom throughout the entire trial. She joins us live from Riverhead and Krista at around 5:00, we spoke to you, you told us that the jury wanted to see a lot of the evidence and listen to some tape once again before deciding. So it was a busy day for them and obviously this evidence was overwhelming and it led to their decision. Well, that's right. After just about seven hours of deliberating, they delivered the verdict of guilty on all counts. Now, some of the things they asked for to hear back was the 911 call that Michael valve a maid also audio that was captured from the home that morning. Now that audio was very emotional for a lot of people in the courtroom, there were times where people were crying when listening to it and what you can hear is a normal family mourning happening. And then Michael discovering little thomas, eight year old thomas, he had gone to the bathroom after sleeping in the garage all night, it was 19 degrees out leading up to the day that child died of hypothermia. You hear Michael outside with the child cleaning him off, screaming and an expletive filled rant. Also screaming things like are you alive slap? Are you alive slap? The child was collapsing in the backyard. Also throughout this trial, we have seen video from the neighbors house of that child collapsing more than once while he was naked in the backyard and you can just hear, you know everything that happened that morning. We couldn't see what happened even though there was nest cameras throughout the entire home. The videos from, in many of the rooms that morning were deleted. The only video that survived from that morning was in Bella's room, which was a dog's room, a pantry right off the kitchen. And that's how we were able to hear a lot of that emotional testimony. Yeah. And Krista throughout this trial, you've painted that picture for us. I don't think anyone's gonna hear the words 19 degrees and not associate that with thomas, valve valve. Uh, uh, for at least a while. Um, did you get the sense that we heard from the john letter co obviously after, after the verdict was read that everyone, uh, played a fair game and respected each side of this trial. Was that the sense you got during being there because you had a front row seat to all of this? Oh, absolutely, Absolutely. Both sides were very respectful of the other side. Obviously this is a very emotional case. I mean we're talking about an eight year old boy that died of hypothermia. We heard from teachers, we heard from the principal, we heard from the detective, we saw autopsy photos while we were in that courtroom of a little eight year old boy. I can't even describe to you what that was like to look at first hand and not only did we see him after he had died, we saw a photo of tom The day before he died on January 16 and he's standing there in his classroom, smiling ear to ear, the little boy with so much hope in his eyes giving a thumbs up and in that thumbs up you could see his hands are beat, beat red, I cannot even describe how red they were. His little cheeks are red and you see his smiling face in his classroom, this was the day before that boy died of hypothermia from sleeping in a garage that he had slept in for months leading up to the day he died. Yeah, that that was definitely some that testimony that hit home hearing his teachers described his hands and how he was a broken boy. Um that perhaps makes it no shock to you that the jury did, was able to come to this verdict so quickly, uh a shock and no shock. I mean you never know what type of jury you're going to get. I mean they're the defense, you know, did give a good argument really, you can say for did he know for sure that that child was going to die from hypothermia. So that was sort Like what they raised the question about. So like I said, you can never really tell with a jury how quickly you're going to get a verdict. It really depends who's sitting on that jury, but I think in this case you could say the evidence was overwhelming as to what exactly happened on January 17 in 2020.

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Jury finds Michael Valva guilty on all counts, including second-degree murder, in death of his son Thomas

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