Four years after the heartbreaking death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva​, change is coming to the Suffolk County department ...
Eight-year-old Thomas Valva died after months of abuse at the hands of his father, an NYPD cop, and his father’s fiancée. Now ...
"We all have unconscious stereotypes and views in our minds, and they have to be eliminated in the evaluation of child ...
HAUPPAUGE, Long Island (WABC) -- Suffolk County officials on Thursday announced key changes to its child protective services ...
The death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva revealed several failures within Suffolk County's Child Protective Services, which ...
Additional CPS changes to help kids in the county are joint trainings, and combining locations of abuse teams.
"CPS has been transformed since Thomas' murder," Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said. Eight-year-old Thomas Valva froze and starved to death at the hands of his father and his fiancee.
Suffolk County officials have unveiled sweeping changes for child protective services, including removing identifying ...
Thomas Valva died in January 2020 from hypothermia ... over and over again to the child protective services office of Suffolk County. However, because the boy’s father was a cop, that helped ...