Father on Trial for Allegedly Killing Son by Forcing Him to Run on Treadmill in New Jersey

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

At the beginning of 2021 Gregor took his son Corey Micciolo to the gym in his room and made him run on the treadmill, which was caught by inspection pictures. Caution is advised when viewing 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 child died two weeks later as a result of blunt force trauma wounds to the heart and to the hate, said a forensic pathologist called by Ocean County prosecutors, reportedly ABC News.

“After hearing and seeing all the evidence in this case, you will be convinced that this defendant is guilty of abuse and murderbecause healthy six-year-olds don’t just die during a workday,” Ocean County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Jamie Schron Roth told the jury.

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

Gregor’s lawyer, 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 shocked. You will feel mortified. But I’m telling you right now that the evidence you see had nothing to do with that plow.”

The defense attorney pointed to 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 the result of soccer activities with him that “boys are boys”. The trial will begin next week.

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

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

All accusations are just accusations and those accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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

Domestic violence is persistent in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with small victims. Every day in NYC, an average of approx 747 incidents of domestic violence – including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse – and around 65 murders each year.

This week a Hispanic ex-criminal was charged beating his mother to death in her apartment in The Bronx (NYC).

Last week a mother was arrested on suspicion Beating to death his 6-year-old daughter in the Bronx (NYC). His other two children also had signs of abuse. Also in April a mother was accused of killing twins 5 years old in the Bronx.

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

End of March 26-year-old athlete accused of beating her mother to death with a pot in her Bronx home. Also that month a son was arrested as suspected of beating his mother to death in their home New Jersey.

In February there was Lasasha Gouldbourne (31). Charged with involuntary manslaughter months after newborn twins found in laundry bag in The Bronx (NYC). Days later a man was charged killing his sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan when she was sitting next to her father in a home in New York.

Also in January a young 43-year-old Hispanic grandmother was killed by her partner, who then killed himself in the victim’s apartment there Brooklyn (NYC). Early February Mother dies and her two children injured after gunman opens fire on family inside a flat in The Bronx (NYC).

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

In 2006 the Hispanic girl Nixzmary Brown (7) She died when her father attacked her with her mother’s problem in Brooklyn.

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