The mother of a New Jersey ‘deadbeat dad’ whose son died from abuse broke down in court as she revealed the angry phone call she received from him at the hospital after the little boy’s death.
Christopher Gregor, 31, is accused of forcing his six-year-old son, Corey Micciolo, to run on a treadmill because he was “too fat.” The child died shortly after from injuries sustained from the alleged abuse.
On the sixth day of Gregor’s trial, his mother, Carol Gregor, took the stand to remember the moment she learned of Corey’s death from her son.
Carol broke down as she described a phone call she received from Gregor at the hospital where her grandson had died.
“Chris is hysterical,” she said, adding that he was furiously shouting “what did he do to her?” about the boy’s mother, Breanna Micciolo.
Gregor’s mother then holds back tears as she describes the exact moment Gregor told her that “Corey passed away.”
On the sixth day of Christopher Gregor’s trial, his mother Carol Gregor (pictured) took the stand to remember the moment she learned of Corey’s death from her son.
Carol broke down as she described a phone call she received from Gregor at the hospital where her grandson had died.
Christopher Gregor, 31, is accused of forcing his six-year-old son, Corey Micciolo, to run on a treadmill because he was “too fat.” The child died shortly after from injuries sustained from the alleged abuse.
Gregor is seen breaking down in tears from where he was sitting in court. He wiped his tears with a handkerchief as he cried.
“Then I call my husband. I’m crazy in the house,” she said, adding that she was screaming hysterically after receiving the devastating news of her grandson’s death.
As Carol recounts her shocked reaction to Corey’s death from the stand, Gregor is seen breaking down in tears from where he sat in court. He wiped his tears with a handkerchief as he cried.
“I was very worried,” she said. “He was so adamant that something happened when he (Corey) was with his mother.”
Carol then revealed how her youngest son, Danny, was receiving threatening phone calls on her home phone as she and her husband drove to the hospital following the “devastating” news.
Later in the trial, the prosecution shot Gregor’s mother for not remembering the time of day when asked. She replied, “I wasn’t looking at the clock.” She was hysterical because my grandson had just passed away; he wasn’t timing things.’
On the fifth day of Christopher Gregor’s murder trial, the New Jersey father spent much of the testimony staring at forensic pathologist Dr. Thomas Andrew, appearing emotional at times as he described the fatal wounds inflicted on his son Corey.
Andrew said Corey, who died in April 2021, lost his life due to blunt force injuries to the chest and abdominals, lacerations and bruises to the liver and a laceration to the heart.
The pathologist ruled that Corey had signs of “stress cardiomyopathy,” a heart condition caused by ongoing stress that, he testified, “suggests there was ongoing physiological stress likely due to mistreatment or abuse.”
Christopher Gregor, 31, faces murder charges in the death of his son and seemed emotional as the jury heard heartbreaking testimony about the extent of his injuries.
Corey Micciolo, 6, died in 2021 after a year of alleged abuse, and a forensic pathologist ruled that he died due to blunt force trauma.
In sickening CCTV footage shown at Gregor’s ongoing trial, Corey is seen continually falling off the treadmill, as Gregor continues to pick him up and put him back on the machine.
Early in the trial, the court was shown shocking footage of Gregor forcing his son to run on a treadmill and lifting him off the ground several times as he fell off the machine.
The images were taken at a New Jersey gym less than two weeks before Corey died, where he was rushed to the hospital dazed and unconscious hours after his mother dropped him off at his father’s house.
Corey’s mother, Breanna Micciolo, who also testified against Gregor last week, alleged that he had not even met her son until a year before his death, and that Corey routinely returned home from his father’s house with new cuts and bruises.
Prosecutors alleged that Gregor showed a pattern of abuse for months before Corey was killed, and the forensic pathologist ruled that the cause of his death was blunt force injuries that were administered “by another person.”
Andrew, who did not perform the autopsy but was brought in to give his verdict shortly after the 2021 death, offered horrifying new details about how the six-year-old boy died.
Micciolo was the first to take the stand as a witness in court last Tuesday. He sobbed and wiped his eyes as he watched the disturbing treadmill video.
Corey’s mother shared sickening images on social media of the abuse she claims was inflicted by the father, including black eyes and bruises all over his body.
Corey allegedly often returned from his father’s house with new bruises and wounds.
Starting with a contusion under Corey’s diaphragm, he said the boy suffered two major injuries to his liver, including a laceration to liver tissue that caused blood to pool in his pelvis.
Andrew testified that Corey’s body was also found to have a “pulmonary contusion” to his lung causing internal bleeding and several bruises to his scalp.
Notably, Corey also suffered a fatal laceration “near the tip” of his heart, Andrew said, which was exacerbated by the “ongoing chronic stress” in his life.
“The immediate cause of death was blunt force injuries on the day of his death,” the pathologist said. “But stress cardiomyopathy suggests that there was ongoing physiological stress, probably due to mistreatment or abuse.”
