In a case that has shocked the city of Barnegat, New Jersey, Christopher J. Gregor He faces justice for the death of his son Corey Micciolo a 6 year old boy. In the shocking images that were exhibited as evidence at the trial, It is seen how the 31-year-old man forced the minor to run on an exercise treadmill at a speed that the child could not bear.
The loss of Corey, who suffered multiple fatal injuries on April 2, 2021, has become the center of a debate over parental responsibility and the consequences of child abuse. According to statements, the father attributed the death of his son to a pneumoniadespite the serious injuries that the minor had.
“When you see that video you will be horrified,” the lawyer told the jury, Mario Gallucci.
The horrible video shows the father and son inside a gym in Barnegat, New Jersey, when Gregor forces the boy to run at high speed on a treadmill. The images They show the 31-year-old man pressing the button that increases the speed of the machine several times. As the machine accelerates, You can see how Corey can’t keep up.
In the pictures the child is seen falling on his backroll and get hurt, but The father quickly picks him up by his shirt and forces him onto the machine without slowing down.
Corey revealed to the doctor that his father had made him run on the treadmill “because he was too fat.”
This happened more than four times before Corey’s father finally slowed down the device.
Other Appalling clip appears to show the father biting his son’s head.
Corey’s mother, who was in a custody dispute over the child, noticed the intense bruising on the little boy’s body and reported it to the police. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency. In her statements to the caseworker, the woman said she feared her son might die.
“I had a bruise on my forehead.”he told the jury. “It had a very strange shape. It seemed like an impression. She had one on her chest. It looked like a scratch,” she added in shock.
Gregor’s ex-wife said she took her son to the doctor and they found no real cause for concern. However, during the examination, the boy revealed to the doctor that his father had made him run on the treadmill. “because I was too fat.”
On April 2, 2021, Corey woke up from his nap slurring his speech, stumbling, and feeling nauseous.. His father rushed him to the hospital where He was declared dead.
“The accused took the child’s limp body to the Southern Ocean Medical Center“said the prosecutor. “He reported that Corey was sleepy and vomiting. Corey was quickly admitted and taken to Room 6 of the emergency department.”
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Breanna Micciolo, Corey’s mother at the hearing against Christopher J. Gregor. (Credit: X)An autopsy performed the next day revealed severe bruising on the child’s body, and Ocean County Coroner Dante Ragusa revealed in the coroner’s results that the cause of the child’s death was blunt force injuries, heart and liver contusions, acute inflammation and sepsis. However, in the end his findings remained “indeterminate.”
Attorney Mario Gallucci told jurors that his medical experts and the state disagreed about the cause of the boy’s death. He said defense experts will testify that Corey died as a result of sepsis caused by a stroke. pneumonia.
Gallucci told the jury that Breanna Micciolo took his son out of Community Medical Center against medical advice when he was told he might have sepsis (a serious condition that occurs when the body’s immune system responds extremely to an infection, damaging its own tissues and organs).
However, the consultant forensic pathologist, Thomas Andrewreviewed the case in September and ruled that the death was a homicide, adding to his analysis the atrocious charges of child abuse. This led to Gregor’s arrest. Andrew also reportedly discovered a laceration to the boy’s heart, along with injuries to his chest and abdomen, a left lung contusion, and lacerations and bruises to his liver.
Source: Infobae
