'Wall of silence': Children linger in troubled homes despite abuse signs, advocates say

Jeffrey Reynolds, executive officer of the Family and Children’s Association, and Anthony Zenkus, who teaches family violence and trauma classes at Columbia and Adelphi universities, spoke to Newsday about where Suffolk County caseworkers appeared to have missed or misread numerous signs of danger in Thomas Valva's case. Credit: Newsday / Steve Pfost; Howard Schnapp