New Jersey father Christopher Gregor, who is accused of killing his 6-year-old son Corey Micciolo by pushing him onto a treadmill at high speed, is a former high school football star who met the boy for the first time. It was less than a year ago. before he abuses and kills him.
There were troubling red flags from the first time Gregor met Corey in 2019, when he was just 5 years old.
Corey returned home to his mother, Brianna Micciolo, that day with a “split lip,” which Gregor said was caused by accidentally kicking the boy while playing soccer. It is said that it was. Jersey Shore Online reported.
Fearing that Micciolo was abusing Corey, Gregor reportedly filed multiple reports with New Jersey Child Protective Services during the short time he was with the child. Sadly, she even said once that she suspected he was using the treadmill to punish him, the paper wrote.
The grieving mother said she “begged” Child Protective Services to take her away from her abuser, but “no one listened or helped.” she wrote in a petition on Change.org. She started after Corey’s death.
The day before she died, Micciolo said a judge had denied her request for full custody. It was not immediately clear when or how she and Gregor met.
Gregor, who attended Monroe Township High School, was an honor roll student and an All-State defenseman who played on the school’s Group III state championship football team in 2009, according to an archive capture of a since-deleted page on the MTHS Athletics website. He was a lineman.
That same year, Home News reported in 2010 that Gregor was made a member of the district’s “Heroes & Cool Kids,” a middle school mentorship program for high school students “who are viewed by administrators as positive role models.” It is said that he was also selected. Tribune community newspaper.
After graduation, Gregor briefly attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts school with approximately 3,200 students in Middletown, Connecticut.
In November 2010, he was arrested on suspicion of stealing from a female dormitory’s room and then drunkenly assaulting two male students who tried to stop him from escaping, including punching them in the face. Ta. middletown press I wrote it at the time.
Gregor eventually earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Arizona, an online school formerly known as Ashford University, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He later earned a master’s degree in secondary education and teaching from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, according to LinkedIn.
Over the next few years, he moved around Florida, New Jersey, and Maryland, working briefly in jobs as diverse as crisis hotline counselor, real estate agent, math teacher, and salesman for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning.
His current position is as a real estate agent with Red Door Real Estate in New Jersey, where he has reportedly worked since February 2018.
According to public records, Gregor faced more than six criminal charges in Baltimore between August 2017 and April 2018, including assault, robbery and criminal damage to property.
According to his LinkedIn, he was a math teacher at Urban Teachers in Baltimore at the time.
Allegedly disturbing text messages between Gregor and Micciolo share online It said it showed a callous disregard for Corey’s safety.
In one exchange, Micciolo tells Gregor that Corey came upstairs crying after he allegedly knocked the football out of the child’s hands after asking his father about his high school glory days.
“That’s a lie. I knocked the ball out of his hands and he didn’t say anything,” Gregor fired back, insisting the exchange was a “joke”.
“Maybe he needs to be a little tougher, [that’s] It’s soft tissue,” Gregor said mockingly to the six-year-old.
On March 20, 2021, Gregor and his son were seen entering the fitness center at the Atlantic Heights clubhouse, where the boy was immediately placed on a treadmill and started running, according to the video. Retrieved from CourtTV.com.
Footage showed Gregor heading to the treadmill to speed up and increase the incline, but the sudden change was too much for little Corey’s legs and he fell over and over quickly. I slipped off my moving course.
Gregor picked him up and threw him back on the treadmill, and the boy’s legs folded back as if his father had sunk his teeth into Corey’s head.
On April 1, at his mother’s urging, Gregor took the boy to see a pediatrician. During the interview, Corey was given a medical certificate and revealed that her father made her run on a treadmill “because she was too fat,” according to multiple reports.
The next day, Corey woke up from a nap feeling nauseous, stumbling, and slurring his speech. Gregor took the boy to Southern Ocean Medical Center, where disturbing surveillance footage showed him transporting his son’s nearly lifeless body to the hospital.
Corey’s injuries were so severe that he suffered a seizure during a CT scan, forcing medical staff to take emergency measures to save his life.
The 6-year-old was pronounced dead just before 5 p.m.
An initial autopsy determined that Corey died as a result of blunt force trauma with contusion of the heart and liver with acute inflammation and sepsis.
Gregor was initially charged with child neglect after the treadmill video came to light. However, in September 2021, a forensic pathologist ruled the boy’s death a homicide due to chronic child abuse, which included blunt force injuries to the chest and abdomen and a laceration to the heart.
Gregor was arrested on March 9, 2022 on suspicion of murder in connection with Corey’s death.
dad refused 30 year plea bargain And if convicted, he could now face life in prison. He is being held without bail in the Ocean County Jail.
