A heartless New Jersey father whose son died days after running him too fast on a treadmill, causing him to fall and injure himself, tried to blame the boy’s mother for his death.
Christopher Greger, 31, is on trial for first-degree murder and child endangerment in the death of 6-year-old Corey Micciolo. Authorities accused him of having a long history of abusing boys.
In court Thursday, Gregor’s mother tearfully testified about a conversation she had with her son on April 2, 2021, the day Corey died.
Carol Greger, her voice cracking and tears streaming down her face, testified that she received a phone call from her son shortly after the boy’s death.
She claimed he was “hysterical, just hysterical” and blamed her ex-husband Brianna Micciolo for his death.
“He’s screaming on the phone, ‘What did she do to him?'” Carol Greger told the court. “So I was like, ‘What’s going on?'” I called her husband, and she freaked out. I’m screaming. I got in the car and went to the hospital. ”
“He says Corey passed,” Carol Gregor continued. “He was very worried. He was adamant when something happened. [Corey] He was with his mother.He kept saying, “Something happened to me,” according to court video. Posted by: Law and Crime Network.
Corey woke up that day with slurred speech, nausea and difficulty breathing. It wasn’t until nearly 4 p.m., when her father took the boy to the hospital, that doctors decided he needed to be intubated immediately, but it was too late.
Corey was pronounced dead at 5:02 p.m. An autopsy determined Corey’s death was a homicide due to blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen, lacerations and contusions to both the liver and heart, and other signs of chronic abuse.
Just a week before Corey’s death, his father had forced him to run on the treadmill at a local gym. The video shows the boy increasing his speed until he is sent sprawling on the ground.
Gregor then picked his son up and put him back into the machine, causing him to fall several more times.
A few days later, Corey’s mother noticed the wound and reported it to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency. The boy was also taken to the hospital on April 1, the day before his death.
During the April 1 visit, Corey told doctors that her father forced her to run on a treadmill because he was “too fat,” the report said. He was released and sent home with his father.
Gregor didn’t stay at the hospital when Corey was dying. Also in court Thursday, a nurse testified that she rushed out of the hospital to keep the boy alive.
“We were the only ones with him,” Lindsey Carnevale, a nurse at Southern Ocean County Medical Center, testified. “We were the only ones there.”
If Gregor is convicted of murder, he could face 30 years in prison.
