“Fat” boy died abused by his father: dramatic video at trial in New Jersey

Christopher Gregor, a father accused of killing his 6-year-old son in New Jersey, repeatedly placed the boy on a treadmill while increasing the speed because he was supposedly “too fat,” prosecutors said at the start of the dramatic trial.

In early 2021, Gregor took his son Corey Micciolo to the gym in his apartment and forced him to run on the treadmill, which was captured on surveillance footage. Caution is recommended when observing them. The boy fell several times as his father continued to pick him up and put him back on the treadmill, hitting his head in the process.

The boy died two weeks later from blunt force trauma with lacerations to the heart and liver, a forensic pathologist cited by Ocean County prosecutors said, reported ABCNews.

“Having heard and seen all of the evidence in this case, you will be firmly convinced that this defendant is guilty of abuse and manslaughter, because healthy six-year-old children do not simply die in the course of a workday,” the juror said. Ocean County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Jamie Schron Roth.

The boy’s mother, Breanna Micciolo, took him to a hospital after noticing bruises on his body in April 2021, according to the prosecutor. The boy allegedly died while in his father’s custody the next day.

Gregor’s attorney, Mario Galluci, urged jurors to ignore the father’s actions at the gym when considering whether he killed his son. “When you see that video, you will be horrified. You will feel mortified. But I tell you right now that the evidence you will see had absolutely nothing to do with that treadmill.”

The defense attorney highlighted the time Corey spent with his mother between the incident at the gym and his trip to the doctor’s office, suggesting that the bruises on his body were also due to soccer activities since “boys will be boys.” The trial will resume next week.

Gregor is a former high school football star and youth mentor who first met his son just a year before he allegedly abused him to death. According to the mother, there were worrying warning signs from the first time they met in 2019, when Corey was just 5 years old, she noted. New YorkPost.

The grieving mother said she “begged” child protective services to “take him away from his abuser,” but “no one listened or helped,” she wrote in the Change.org petition she started after the tragedy. The day before his son’s death, Micciolo said a judge denied his request for full custody. It is not clear how or when the two parents met and why he was estranged from the child for the first few years of his life.

All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

In a similar case, last year an NYPD police officer and his partner were sentenced for the death of his son, an 8-year-old autistic boy who suffered constant abuse in his home on Long Island (NY).

Domestic violence is common in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with minor victims. Every day in NYC, an average of 747 incidents of domestic violence – including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse – and about 65 homicides are reported annually.

This week a Hispanic ex-convict was accused of beating his mother to death in her apartment in the Bronx (NYC).

Last week a mother was arrested on suspicion of beating her 6-year-old daughter to death in The Bronx (NYC). Her other two children also showed signs of abuse. Likewise in April a mother was accused of killing her 5-year-old twins in the Bronx.

Last Good Friday, a 9-year-old Latino boy died in a burning car behind a high school in New Jersey and his father, a school employee, was accused of setting the fire after a domestic dispute.

At the end of March, a young 26-year-old athlete was accused of killing her mother by hitting her with a pot in their home in the Bronx. Also that month, a son was arrested on suspicion of fatally beating his mother at her home in New Jersey.

In February, Lasasha Gouldbourne (31) was charged with involuntary manslaughter months after her newborn twin was found stuffed in a laundry bag in the Bronx (NYC). Days later, a man was accused of killing her sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan while she was sitting next to her father at a home in New York.

Also in January, a young 43-year-old Hispanic grandmother was shot to death by her partner, who then committed suicide in the victim’s apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). In early February, a mother died and her two children were injured after a gunman opened fire on the family inside an apartment in the Bronx (NYC).

In January, a man was arrested a day after his mother’s funeral on suspicion of having strangled her at her home in Staten Island (NYC). Also that month, a man and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in an apartment in Brooklyn (NYC) in an apparent murder-suicide. Days before, a Hispanic woman killed her daughters and her husband and then took her own life inside her home in Union (NJ) after receiving an eviction order, authorities reported.

In 2006, the Hispanic girl Nixzmary Brown (7) was killed by her stepfather with the complicity of her mother in Brooklyn.

If you are a victim or suspect that someone is being abused, especially if it is a minor or elderly:

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