A forensic pathologist watered down accused murderer and child molester Christopher Greger’s claim that his son died of sepsis during testimony Wednesday. A six-year-old son has outlined gory details of the bruises on his body that he allegedly sustained while in his father’s care. Treadmill at high speed.
“There is absolutely no evidence of sepsis or any other infectious disease in Corey,” pathologist Dr. Thomas A. Andrew testified from the stand in Orange County, New Jersey, on the fifth day of Greger’s murder trial.
Defense attorneys for the murderous father had argued that his son, Corey Micciolo, suffered from sepsis from an infection that may have been caused by pneumonia. According to the Asbury Park Press But Andrews testified that the child died from bruises and lacerations found over “extensive areas of his body.”
Those injuries included a laceration to Corey’s heart near his left ventricle, bruising to his liver, and blunt force trauma to his chest.
Mr. Andrews testified that the wounds indicated the boy had been murdered.
Days before Corey’s death in 2021, Gregor, 31, was caught on camera running the boy on a high-speed treadmill, forcing him to stand up until he was thrown from the machine, causing him to fall repeatedly. was.
At one point, Gregor even appears to bite the top of the boy’s head.
About a week later, on April 2, 2021, Corey was taken to the hospital after suffering from slurred speech, vomiting, difficulty breathing, and nausea.
The boy’s heart stopped shortly after arriving at the hospital and staff were unable to revive him.
As doctors desperately tried to revive the boy, Gregor left the room and the boy died without his family by his side.
“We were the only ones with him,” Lindsey Carnevale, a nurse at Southern Ocean County Medical Center who helped treat Corey that day, testified Tuesday.
Andrews testified that the nature and time of Corey’s death initially led him to conclude that the fatal injuries were inflicted between 5 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the day of death. That means it may have been in the custody of his mother, Bre Micciolo, but a video later shown to the jury showed that the incident occurred while Corey was in Gregor’s care. I believed it.
The only sound on that video is audio that Micciolo accidentally recorded while dropping Corey off at Gregor’s house around 9 a.m., in which the boy can be heard speaking in a normal, non-distressed voice, and Andrews He concluded that the fatal injury must have been sustained while he was with his father.
“A child who has already been critically injured is not going to react that way,” Andrews said.
If convicted of murdering his son, Gregor will have 30 years to live.
