Monstrous NYPD cop accused of killing 8-year-old son is failed actor who once played bereaved father

The monstrous NYPD cop accused of beating his 8-year-old autistic son and leaving him to freeze to death in the family’s Long Island garage is a failed actor — who once played a bereaved father.

Michael Valva, 40, a transit officer suspended without pay in the wake of his son’s death, always had...