The home on Bittersweet Lane in Center Moriches where 8-year-old Thomas Valva froze to death in 2020 failed to sell at a Town of Brookhaven auction this morning, according to reports.
Bidding began at 10 a.m. at Brookhaven Town Hall — only there were no bidders.
Thomas Valva died when Angela Pollina, 45, and his father Michael Valva, 43, a former New York City police officer, left Thomas and his brother to sleep overnight in an unheated garage at their Center Moriches home when temperatures dropped to 19 degrees.
Suffolk County police officers responded to Valva and his fiance’s Bittersweet Lane home at 9:40 a.m. Jan. 17, 2020, when the father initially told responding officers that the boy was unconscious after hitting his head while walking to the bus stop on his way to school.
Valva was taken to Long Island Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
His body temperature was 76 degrees at the time.
He also had injuries that did not appear to be from a fall, police said.
Valva and Pollina are both serving 25 years to life in prison after being convicted of Thomas’s murder.
With the auction’s failure, the house is now owned by M & T Bank.
