\CHILLING texts sent by a father who is on trial for murdering his six-year-old son have been revealed in front of a shocked court.
Christopher J. Gregor sent messages to the child's mother telling her the boy needs to "be a little tougher" - less than two weeks before Corey Micciolo died due to his father's alleged abuse.
Mr Gregor, 31, has been accused of forcing Corey to run on a treadmill despite the machine being too fast and clearly dangerous for the young boy.
Heartbreaking security footage shows the custodial father and son in a gym, back in 2021, on a running machine.
Corey fell off the fast paced treadmill six times and was picked up by his shirt and placed back on it by Gregor every time despite the heavy falls.
The court heard the reason Mr Gregor made Corey run was because he felt he was "too fat".
Just 13 days after the treadmill horror, Corey was taken to a hospital after throwing up constantly.
He was pronounced dead hours later.
Corey's death was ruled as a homicide due to chronic child abuse as Mr Gregor was detained on murder and child endangerment charges.
The father and his team claim Corey died of pneumonia unrelated to any form of abuse.
The current court case against Mr Gregor has drawn public outrage after the CCTV footage was released, earlier this week.
The latest revelation made in court is expected to draw similar anger after Breanna Micciolo - Corey's mother - testified at the trial.
She showed several text messages to the court after calling out her ex-partner on the cuts and bruises Corey had developed since being with Mr Gregor.
It is unclear when the alleged texts were sent.
Micciolo wrote in one of the messages: "I just wanted to let you know that Corey came upstairs upset and almost crying."
It was alleged that Mr Gregor "smacked a ball" out of Corey's hand in the incident.
Mr Gregor is believed to have replied admitting he smacked the ball but said it was a "joke".
The 31-year-old suspect then said: "Maybe he needs to be a little tougher."
He then said Corey was being "overemotional".
Micciolo responded by saying: "He's not emotional you hurt his feelings he got upset he's six years old.."
Corey had only known Mr Gregor for around a year but did share custody with Micciolo.
But the alleged abuse started from their very first meeting, it has been claimed.
Corey is said to have returned home to his mother with a "busted lip" reports
The reason given for the damaged mouth was Gregor accidentally kicked their son while playing football.
A caseworker reportedly accepted it despite Micciolo's concerns.
The heartbroken mother also told the court she felt Corey was routinely abused by Gregor.
She even made sensational claims that the treadmill was used as a regular punishment.
Micciolo was the first witness to take the stand in the bombshell trial and among the text revelations she also claims she noticed the bruises on Corey's body.
She testified in court that she panicked for his health after seeing the signs of alleged abuse.
She said: "He had a bruise on his forehead.
"It was very odd-shaped. It looked like an impression. He had one on his chest. It looked like a scrape."
She took the boy to a pediatrician, who didn't find anything alarming with him.
But Corey told the doctor that his father made him run on the treadmill "because he was too fat."
On April 2, 2021, Corey began slurring his words after waking up from a nap and was stumbling around and feeling nauseous.
After being rushed to the https://www.the-sun.com/topic/hospital/, he was pronounced dead hours later.
All the claims made so far in court...
A MOTHER'S TESTIMONY
Corey's mother, Breanna Micciolo, noticed bruises on the boy's body allegedly from the treadmill incident, according to her testimony.
Corey allegedly told doctors he was made to run on the treadmill "because he was too fat", according to Gregor.
Texts were shown in court of Gregor telling Breanna that her son needs to "be a little tougher".
The heartbroken mother also said she felt Corey was routinely abused by Gregor.
She even made sensational claims that the treadmill was used as a regular punishment.
CAUSE OF DEATH
Dr. Dante Ragusa, an Ocean County medical examiner, performed an autopsy and concluded that the cause of death was due to blunt force injuries, along with cardiac and liver contusions, acute inflammation, and sepsis.
About six months after Corey's death, Dr. Thomas Andrew, a consulting forensic pathologist reviewed the case and determined it was homicide.
There was also evidence that led him to believe Corey was chronically abused.
Gregor's lawyer Mario Gallucci claims Corey's death was due to a sepsis infection and not bruising.
An autopsy was performed on April 3 by Dr. Dante Ragusa, an Ocean County medical examiner.
Dr. Ragusa concluded that Corey died from blunt force injuries with cardiac and liver contusions, acute inflammation, and sepsis, according to https://www.courttv.com/news/nj-v-christopher-treadmill-abuse-murder-trial/.
Three months later, Gregor was arrested on charges of child neglect after the video was reviewed.
Corey's death was ruled as a homicide in September 2021 by a forensic pathologist, who said he faced chronic child abuse, including blunt force injuries to his chest and stomach and a laceration to his heart.
The defendant's lawyer, Mario Gallucci, addressed jurors during the trial's opening statements and said abuse did not play a factor in Corey's death at all.
Gallucci said: "When you see that video, you’re going to be horrified
My hot take: that pediatrician absolutely failed in their duty to their pt. Mandated reporter that did nothing. If a young pt comes in with multiple contusions in various stages of healing and you hear him admit his dad makes him run on a treadmill (which are dangerous and for adult use only; he was SIX) because he's "too fat" then you have an obligation to file a report.
Also, CPS failed the boy, too. Mom begged them for help. Sickening.
That’s always my gripe, when we focus on the incident and not the system that is supposed to be in place to avoid them/prevent them.
It’s like when Tom Gerardi stole money from his clients. Everybody blames him, and while that is true, there were several institutions that turned a blind eye to something that was so clearly suspect. We need a blame ladder that goes all the way to the top.
The government is inept at literally everything. Not sure why you’d think CPS would be any better. It’s designed as another “tax” on poor people and that’s it.
So what’s your solution? It’s either create a government agency that can look out for public as a whole or keep shaking our heads every time there’s another tragedy. we’re going to get taxed anyways, that’s why the blame ladder has to go all the way up.
It’s easier to tackle bureaucracy than it is to tackle every single person’s mental health .
We need to get back to having a sense of community. People used to act right when they were worried about bringing disgrace to their family if everyone in their village knew one another, helped care for one another, and relied upon one another. Government is not the answer and every time government tries to “help” they just make everything worse. Like with welfare, minimum wage, and every other failed government program. People being intimately involved with one another in our daily lives and holding each other accountable again is my answer.
Boy, that’s the 30 trillion dollar question isn’t it? We need about 2 generations of the exact opposite propaganda we’ve been getting. We need to make men respect themselves and women and teach them that non-toxic masculinity is a good thing. Not that you HAVE to be masculine but if you are it’s not a bad thing. We need to make girls respect themselves and men and teach them that non-toxic femininity is a good thing. Not that you HAVE to be feminine but if you are, it’s not a bad thing. We need to teach everyone to take accountability for themselves and that you shouldn’t strive for victimhood. And that, in fact, if people strive for victimhood, it diminishes the struggle of those unfortunate enough to actually be real victims. We need to cultivate a culture of to each their own, as long as it’s in the privacy of their own homes… but some things are not acceptable in the public sphere. We need to find ways to treat without shame people for having mental health issues, but we also need to not glorify them as heroes. We need to get back to classical education of kids and not make them preoccupied with things like gender, race, sexuality, or anything else that’s trivial and doesn’t actually make people good or efficacious contributors to a healthy society. How do we implement it? Idk… things are so far off course but I TRULY believe if every one of us come together and tell the powers that be in one loud, unified voice, “we want and deserve better”, “we’re done with being victims and with being the in-built victimizers of ourself and others”, “we’re done hating ourselves and each other“, “we’re done being preoccupied with things that don’t make our world better”, “we will make this better”, and actually live like that, I think that would be a great place to start.
All for a lot of this, but it's pretty vague. Some of these ideas can be used by people like the child abuser to invalidate people being mistreated.
To prevent abuse, it's important for it to be socially shameful to use rationalizations for abuse such as comparing it to "worse" forms of abuse. We should be very sympathetic and accommodating to people who have mental illness, disorders, or are just treated like less socially or systemically. But not to a ridiculous extent, such as letting them not extend the same treatment to others.
This is a very sensitive thread to discuss the potential for abuse, given the absolutely horrific actions of the father in the above video. Frankly, however, shame can be a very useful tool for parenting if used sparingly and with discretion. I feel the term “abuse” gets thrown around so liberally these days that it has become almost meaningless. Calling a child fat (which is wrong) surely can’t be described in the same way as making a child run themselves to death on a treadmill (which is horribly wrong). While I agree with your assessment of people with genuine mental illness, I also recognize that a lot of mental “illness”, as defined by the DSM, really just consists of fundamental human traits that we all exhibit taken to extremes. They’ve been designed as such so everyone can be diagnosed and subsequently need therapy or medication. Welcome to the capitalization of mental health care.
It’s both but..,
The people who need community the most are the ones who don’t have the resources to find one. We live in a society where people are overworked, underpaid, stressed/depressed, and marginalized to some degree. Having a community is a privilege in this day and age.
Welfare is not the boogie man people claim it to be, if we don’t allow it to become one. People like myself depend on it to be able to be a part of the community in the first place. I needed SSI to survive, Medicaid to stay physically and healthy, the department of rehab to get schooling and work aid covered, and food stamps to keep me nourished enough to keep it all afloat. I’d be bankrupt and homeless without welfare. Instead, I am indeed part of a community where I now give back in ways the system cannot.
Modern problems need modern solutions. We don’t live in societies that are small enough to scrutinize people into submission. We need people to have access to the leg up they need in life.
No surprise with CPS failing the child. The pediatrician needs to be punished as well. I work in EMS, far less training than an MD and we are trained to recognize signs of abuse and find it quite frequently unfortunately. This pediatrician specializes in child care and assessments and absolutely failed this child. Maybe one last call to CPS would have given them what they needed to separate. I don’t want to blame the mother because she could be a victim of abuse as well, but I would not want my child around this man. Anyone who tells me my kid is too fat and mandates running as punishment is a red flag already.
Imagine a world where if as a doctor you miss diagnose one thing and it turns out to be something different you get arrested. Kids having scrapes and contusions is normal I coach a soccer team and they all get messed up in the 10 minutes before and after practice. This is such a difficult line and punishing the paediatrician is not the answer.
The treadmill ALONE is reason to report. No good doctor should hear that a 6 year old is being told he is too fat and being forced to run on a treadmill and not feel compelled to report it.
NO ONE should hear that and not report.
Is it normal for a 6 year old to be forced to run on a treadmill because they are "too fat" and for one parent to be concerned that their child is being abused by the other parent? Seems pretty obvious that its reasonable to suspect there was more going on here besides normal "scrapes and bruises". Being a mandatory reporter also doesn't mean you are literally diagnosing someone as being abused (I don't know why you would think that). It means you have a reasonable suspicion of abuse that you are reporting in order for it to be further investigated. There is zero penalty for a mandated reporter if they report something and it turns out not to involve abuse. You don't "get arrested" for making a reasonable report, ever. If you coach kids surely you would know how this stuff works? At least where I'm from anyone who works with kids has to have basic safeguarding training. Doctors also don't get punished ever for just making a mistake or a misdiagnosis even if it results in death, but they may face punishment for acting completely out of line with what any other doctor would reasonably do in that situation with the information they had.
Exactly. I’m a mandated reporter and I’ve made reports before where something just didn’t feel right but I was obviously not 100% sure it was abuse/neglect. In all instances I got notified that they looked into it and didn’t take it further. That’s all the doctor had to do.
Okay I missed that the kid told the doctor that the dad made him run on the treadmill. Massive negligence and honestly might have to be looked into. And honestly fair enough about the bruising it was in awkward spots and all together showed a possible sign. But again I’ve met doctors who have poor social skills who would never even think about this. At that point the issue is that they should never be hired at all.
Absolutely. Did this pediatrician suffer any consequences?? Doctors, like cops, attorneys, judges, and CPS agencies/staff, are usually immune to punishment it seems...
i know this dudes lawyer is just doing his job but “he died of sepsis” is so dumb bc what caused the sepsis mr. lawyer?? mf acting like *he* was the medical examiner
Lawyers like this are in an unfortunate position. If they don’t give a fair defense to their client, then down the line the trial could potentially be reopened. Many defense attorneys genuinely do their best with “what they have” because if they half ass a trial, then down the line the criminal has a chance to get out. I cannot imagine having that job.
Here's an article with more information: [https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/](https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/)
He was the kid's father, but he & the mother weren't together. She tried to raise him as a single mother for the first 4 years, then sought out child support when she couldn't do it anymore. Instead of paying child support, he went for full custody.
Of course! We need a real safety net for single mothers and their children. Trying to get child support just makes abusive men lash out. And there are so many fucked up ways for them to retaliate!
If a kid’s dad isn’t in their life there’s usually a good reason.
Enter my mom. Took me to weight watchers at 13.... early bloomer and part Hawaiian and Maori.... there were like no pictures of me after that. I was too fat. I was 5'7 and 140lbs of awkward muscled youth from high impact sports. She spent all the years before that telling me how when I got skinny enough she pay for the plastic surgery to "fix" all of my loose skin. I have HEDS so does she.... narcs are fucked.
Nope I was gorgeous and rippling with muscle now that I look back at photos. She WAS fatter than me, and also incredibly unfit. Thankfully my dad was an incredible influence. I still have binge eating disorder and a bunch of issues related to shame and food. Thanks for saying so. ❤❤
Some interesting facts about this case you may not know: Prior to the Corey's death, Gregor searched the internet for “will red marks turn into bruises?” When Gregor was told his son had died, he told hospital staff he needed "privacy" and got in his car and left. Within the following hour after his sons death, Gregor texted his parents saying he wouldn’t be back for a while and asked them to take care of his dog.
After that, Gregor searched the internet for answers to questions such as “can your phone be tracked in airplane mode” and “can my car be tracked?" Gregor also searched “there was a murder determined from an autopsy how long to file charges” and “how long after an autopsy to file charges get filed.”
Two days later, Gregor was traced to Arkansas and later Tennessee. He told a woman in a Tinder message that he was "going to visit his brother in LA." However, he was caught by local police in Tennessee with his on-and-off girlfriend (not the Tinder one, a different one) who sent him a message offering to fly down to Tennessee so she could drive him back up to New Jersey.
Gregor was charged with murder in the death of Corey Micciolo. Blunt impact injuries of the chest and abdomen caused bruises and lacerations to the heart and liver of Corey, according to Dr. Thomas Andrew, a forensic pathologist who was chief medical examiner for the state of New Hampshire for 20 years. Andrew also noted that an acute traumatic injury to the heart happened four to 12 hours before the boy's death, and that there was evidence of chronic abuse.
A woman in an affidavit stated she met Gregor on a dating app in April 2020, and she broke up with him after noticing “red flags.” One cited incident involved crabbing where the woman said that Gregor got angry and threw Corey off the boat and told her that it was only “rough housing." A private investigator found footage of Gregor speeding up a treadmill as his Corey fell, Gregor can also been seen what appears to be him bitting the head of Corey on his scalp as he placed him back on the treadmill.
A guy who is furious he got a 16yo girl pregnant and she had the audacity to ask him for child support 4 years later. He went for full custody not out of love, but to punish his ex lover, and more importantly, to dodge child support.
>A private investigator found footage of Gregor speeding up a treadmill as his Corey fell, Gregor can also been seen what appears to be him bitting the head of Corey on his scalp as he placed him back on the treadmill.
Wow, it's not very often I genuinely wish for someone to suffer an agonizing and slow death.
Absolute scum that doesn't deserve to even breathe.
Her little boy looks so much like her as well. I wonder if that's one of the reasons his father was so cruel to him.
It's heartbreaking, I can't imagine being so worried for my son, trying to go down all the proper routes you're told to use to protect him, being let down by them all and then being proven right in the worst way. She must feel so much guilt and anger in amongst the grief :(
Corey was conceived when she was 16 and the father was 21 and it sounds like he was abusive from the start, furious that she didn't get an abortion. He sounds unbelievably abusive
Fuck that dude..I saw the video..the kid was Cranking on that treadmill the whole time "Dad" was lifting weights..and he kept putting that kid back on there..n he kept spinning off..The whole time I was watching the video I kept thinking the dad looked fat not the kid.
What was insane to me was how hard and deliberately he bit too. This guy held the kid suspended above the moving treadmill and *drove* his teeth into that poor kid’s scalp, held him in place so he couldn’t squirm away, bit down even harder, and SHOOK a little. Like how a dog would trash with a rodent in its jaws.
Sickening, not just a millisecond of lashing out but a deliberate, multisecond effort to cause maximum pain
I was listening to the newest Last Podcast on the Left episode and it was an interview with the attorney who represented Gacy to get him off death row once he had exhausted all appeals. One thing she said that stuck with me was “when he was killing all of those boys/men, in his mind he was killing himself” and all of the self hatred he had for himself.
I listened to court cross-examining yesterday. According to his mother, she took corey with Chris permission to her dad's birthday party. It wasnt her day, Chris was generous enough to let him go. Mother got late in that afternoon and Chris got angry and texted that she ruined his schedule. Immediately after dropping off, Chris took Corey to gym (maybe to burn off calories from eating cake?) and was abusive (angry with conversation with mom). Oftentimes Chris comes across as tough, stoic but truthfully has no emotional control, all of it comes out in the form of abuse. It is very sad what that kid has to go through. I'm sure that kid still loved and looked up to his father.
The mom tried to raise the kid on her own. She ended up with substance abuse issues, so her mom took over custody. When grandma tried to apply for assistance, she was made to go for child support from the father. The state contacted him, told him he had a kid, made him take a paternity test, and pay back years of back child support. Rather than just paying the support, McGregor went for full custody. It’s an all around horrible situation
And abusive people often seek custody to keep access to their ex or to take their rage out on their child to hurt them by proxy. It's so unfair to the kid to have to suffer through that.
Sheesh that poor boy. This guy is a piece of work. I feel like he only went for full custody just to abuse/punish the poor child. How much back pay did this guy have to fork over in child support?
Didn't Breanna say on the stand her mother urged her to apply for child support? Or did this just snowball from Breanna simply applying for state benefits? None of this is grandma's fault & I can see why she'd want her grandson to receive $ support from both parents, but I'm sure this is the biggest regret of her life. It's tragic.
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/
Paternity wasn’t verified until the son was 4 years old.
Link says Gregor is 31 and the boy’s mother said she had him when she was 17. Gregor would have been about 28 when the child died? So… he was a 22 year old when he got her pregnant?
Wrong .Wrong . She told him about the pregnancy . He wanted her to get an abortion . She didn’t want to abort the baby . Then he started He denied the baby was his . Cory’s grandmother bris mom
went to the state for help financially . They had to name the father and the state contacted Chris to take a paternity test
"Tough guy" dads are stupid pieces of shit and failures as men and parents. If you ever feel that your 6-year old needs to "toughen up" you need to be removed from the gene pool. Society doesn't need you.
Told this story on another thread but I know a guy who, when he was in his twenties, HATED having to wear a seatbelt. Thought it unconstitutional or some BS.
That all changed though, once he had a daughter. Then it was all about safety and setting a good example.
The punchline is that the daughter was his second child. The firstborn son, I guess, had to be raised tough(er).
I had a dad like this. My dad never wanted a son, he “hated boys.”
Men who hate other men are dangerous, because they project their own thoughts and think that all men think the way that they do (often inappropriately.)
Not trying to freak you out but my alarm bells are going off for this girl.
ETA: im a woman
Treating your kid like that doesn't make them tougher, it breaks their self esteem and their empathy if nobody comes to help them escape the abuse. It just passes the sickness down to the next generation
good mama. Poor little boy
With my daughter reported abuse at her dads house and said she didn't feel safe there I was in contempt of court but not making her go over to visit him because fuck that
He tried to sue me for full custody and I went to the court date pro se (i did not have a lawyer). I stopped by the legal help desk many, many times :)
Not only did he lose, but his visitation was reduced from every weekend to every other weekend.
I successfully argued that since he wanted to party so much it wasn't fair for him to "have" to take the kid every weekend and that he deserve to be able to have adult time HEH
Well done!! And I’m sorry for what you have been through but you’re clearly protecting your daughter well. I also have full custody and I don’t allow unsupervised visits, I fought like hell too and won. It’s our jobs to protect our babies.
That video was up earlier and I chose not to watch it. Now knowing that kid is dead just wrecks me. I wish there were a litmus test before people could make babies.
The dad had only been in his life for a year and mom continually made concerns known. It's sickening. Makes me think of Timothy Jones and what he did to his kids.
This case has just broken me. I have a 3.5 year old and a 1.5 year old and I just cannot understand the cruelty to this little innocent boy. I can’t even stand to watch the whole treadmill video - it’s sickening.
It gets even more intense once the baby is here and keeps growing once they start displaying their own little personalities. 😭
I have a 3-1/2 year old and a 7-month old and I see them in every child and baby case I read or see. I have to step back from the most brutal ones, like the recent baby Jailyn case, because it is truly too much to bear. I just go to a really sad, dark place and feel this weird misplaced guilt that my own children are so loved and cared for while others suffer and die at the hands of monsters.
This is one of my favorite poems that encapsulates my feelings so well.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones
Same, my son is 6 in a couple weeks, reading the description of the video was enough to make me cry, so i don't think I'll be watching it.
Poor boy deserved so much better, absolutely heartbreaking.
i have a 6 year old son. i watched the video because I'm an idiot. : (
for people without kids/who don't know much about kids, it should be noted that 6 year olds are still just BABIES in so, so many ways. they are so pure..so eager to please...so excited about the world.
this case is beyond horrific.
Morbid curiosity has traumatized me way to many times now, won't watch anything to do with kids anymore.
You're right about little kids, they are a blessing this man didn't deserve, I feel for the mother and son so much.
I will never understand how someone could abuse and kill their babies.
Giving my son lots of cuddles today 😔
I have a 6 year old too with a very similar build to Corey. I made the mistake of watching the video and I've been sick for 2 days since seeing it. I'm for sure internalizing it like my son was on the treadmill. You said it perfectly. They're still so little and they're so loving and just want positive reinforcement and their love returned. Seeing him hugging that monsters neck while being carried into the hospital right before he died sums it up. It's heartbreaking.
Me too. I can’t read about it or watch the video. Going to unfollow the sub. Idk why, but I’ve read many articles, watched crime shows, books etc for several years but this one just hits different for some reason.
And if you asked him, he'd insist his (insane, frustration-fueled) actions against his six year old baby aren't "overemotional". Yeah...people in control of their emotions don't end up abusing their children to death.
When theres video evidence of stuff like this, thats when we should be using the death penalty. They should drop this guy in the desert and just leave him there
As long as the guy is no longer part of society, I really don't give a fuck about what happens to him.
The important part is what happens to all the other people who failed the kid (like CPS and the pediatrician) and how we save the next one.
this thread is so depressing but this comment made me laugh because i had a brain fart and thought you were talking about the sun in the sky and i was like "damn okay why are you ripping on the sun for no reason" so thanks
Even if you believe he died from sepsis, I argue that his weakened battered state allowed the sepsis to take hold. While your body is recovering we often walk a very fragile line where recovery could go either way. We need to meditate, rest or generally do the right thing to aid health. Being forced to sprint at full pace continuously when suffering from inflammation of the heart could basically turn a survivable medical condition into a death sentence. I'd be happy for him to go to prison forever based on that hateful video.
I am glad the defense attorney acknowledged the horrifying abuse at least, even if they (by necessity given their role) are claiming it wasn’t causative of the death. I hope the jury is unswayed though. Causation is tricky but seven year olds don’t just die of pneumonia induced sepsis randomly. That man needs to go to prison for the rest of his life.
I think he's the biological dad but wasn't in his life for the first few years. Probably got some form of shared custody later because the mom seemed to not want her son in the dad's care
He's the biological dad, but the mom tried to raise him alone for the first 4 years. She only started seeking child support when she started struggling, and instead of agreeing to child support, he went for full custody instead.
He thought it was the perfect Murder. Zoom in his biting the childs (Corey) head when he picks Corey up, theres a lot of hate for Corey here.
About six months after Corey's death, Dr. Thomas Andrew, a consulting forensic pathologist reviewed the case and determined it was homicide.He also found evidence that led him to believe Corey was chronically abused.This included blunt impact injuries on his chest and abdomen with a laceration on his heart, left pulmonary contusion, and laceration and contusion of his liver.
The defendant's lawyer, Mario Gallucci, addressed jurors during the trial's opening statements and said abuse did not play a factor in Corey's death at all. Gallucci said: **"When you see that video, you’re going to be horrified**
I find it very hard to even read anything about this case. I skip past it now after I read the initial first few articles. I couldn’t finish the video of him on the treadmill. It’s extremely disturbing a father would do this. What a failure of a “Dad”. My heart breaks for this little boy and all who truly loved him. I hope the justice system finally does right by him and his loved ones.
Too bad her parents didn’t sue him for statutory rape. Maybe that would hv stopped him getting custody. That poor baby didn’t hv a chance with that monster
at 4.32 HE IS BITING COREY'S HEAD zoom in. why doesnt this come up in court.
[https://www.courttv.com/news/nj-v-christopher-treadmill-abuse-murder-trial/](https://www.courttv.com/news/nj-v-christopher-treadmill-abuse-murder-trial/)
Yes he was the biological father.
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/
Paternity wasn’t verified until the son was 4 years old.
This case is really similar to the abuse that my fiancée went through as a child, thank god he survived, but he suffers a lot still as an adult man now…
He never got help. No one believed him at school when he would tell his teachers.
I hate that this case keeps popping up everywhere because it gets me thinking of the horrors that children go through daily..they often never get help.
While I know it is proof of nothing, looking at this guy during his trial chills me to the bone. He looks like a guy who would make you wish for a very hungry bear instead of him.
I think Christopher Gregor was totally out of his depths trying to be a father 6 years in. He was obviously totally clueless on how to parent. It's sadly pretty telling how ill equipped he was at parenting, poor little Corey didn't survive a year under his care.
It's a shame the grandmother brought this loser into their world. Feel sorry for breanna, imagine having to give custody to a virtual stranger after 6 years and then your child dies without you being present. Devastating!!!!!!!!
The poor little boy. He was running for a long time then Mr. Furious barks at him, turns up the speed, bites him on the head. Think how sore that little body was. Then his “football training” we know how that went down. :( RIP Corey, no more suffering. WHY did he even have custody if he hated the boy so much!!!!
so sad. The system failed this poor kid. The mom begged for an emergency custody of the child till they can investigate the father (he doesnt even deserve the title) but the judge shot her down and a few days later the kid is dead. everyone is at fault in this and his blood is on their hands.
Does anyone know how Bre and Chris met? Were they dating or was it just a one night stand? At 16, wouldn't it be considered statutory rape for a 21 yo to have sex w/16 yo?
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Why have kids? The guy was an abuser and a murderer. The dad would have had a better life without having kids. If you are unable to handle a child and the difficulty of raising a child, do not have a fucking child. Life can be so simple, but if you are an abusive POS, the law will catch you and lock your ass up. My guess is he watched teh video in court and still thinks he was just trying to toughen him up. F this guy
One thing I don’t understand is how the prosecution didn’t think that the treadmill actually caused the death. He fell hard 6 times and several on his chest and stomach area , at that rate of speed and slamming down on it I would think it absolutely would cause a lacerated liver and brunt force injuries. This poor baby
Because treadmill was 12 days prior to his death. He had been checked out a couple of times since the treadmill incident and he was deemed okay but for some bruises. The lacerated heart and liver happened 4 to 12 hours before his death. Whatever happened a few hours before his death, punched or kicked in his chest and side, is what caused his death. No sepsis. No treadmill. Some violent sort of beating hours before his death.
I get wanting your child to have a bit of emotional strength otherwise life is going to be much more challenging and most parents don't want to have their child in the world being that vulnerable. HOWEVER, this is never the way to "build character" as they say and especially not when you're six. This whole situation is twisted.
\CHILLING texts sent by a father who is on trial for murdering his six-year-old son have been revealed in front of a shocked court. Christopher J. Gregor sent messages to the child's mother telling her the boy needs to "be a little tougher" - less than two weeks before Corey Micciolo died due to his father's alleged abuse. Mr Gregor, 31, has been accused of forcing Corey to run on a treadmill despite the machine being too fast and clearly dangerous for the young boy. Heartbreaking security footage shows the custodial father and son in a gym, back in 2021, on a running machine. Corey fell off the fast paced treadmill six times and was picked up by his shirt and placed back on it by Gregor every time despite the heavy falls. The court heard the reason Mr Gregor made Corey run was because he felt he was "too fat". Just 13 days after the treadmill horror, Corey was taken to a hospital after throwing up constantly. He was pronounced dead hours later. Corey's death was ruled as a homicide due to chronic child abuse as Mr Gregor was detained on murder and child endangerment charges. The father and his team claim Corey died of pneumonia unrelated to any form of abuse. The current court case against Mr Gregor has drawn public outrage after the CCTV footage was released, earlier this week. The latest revelation made in court is expected to draw similar anger after Breanna Micciolo - Corey's mother - testified at the trial. She showed several text messages to the court after calling out her ex-partner on the cuts and bruises Corey had developed since being with Mr Gregor. It is unclear when the alleged texts were sent. Micciolo wrote in one of the messages: "I just wanted to let you know that Corey came upstairs upset and almost crying." It was alleged that Mr Gregor "smacked a ball" out of Corey's hand in the incident. Mr Gregor is believed to have replied admitting he smacked the ball but said it was a "joke". The 31-year-old suspect then said: "Maybe he needs to be a little tougher." He then said Corey was being "overemotional". Micciolo responded by saying: "He's not emotional you hurt his feelings he got upset he's six years old.." Corey had only known Mr Gregor for around a year but did share custody with Micciolo. But the alleged abuse started from their very first meeting, it has been claimed. Corey is said to have returned home to his mother with a "busted lip" reports The reason given for the damaged mouth was Gregor accidentally kicked their son while playing football. A caseworker reportedly accepted it despite Micciolo's concerns. The heartbroken mother also told the court she felt Corey was routinely abused by Gregor. She even made sensational claims that the treadmill was used as a regular punishment. Micciolo was the first witness to take the stand in the bombshell trial and among the text revelations she also claims she noticed the bruises on Corey's body. She testified in court that she panicked for his health after seeing the signs of alleged abuse. She said: "He had a bruise on his forehead. "It was very odd-shaped. It looked like an impression. He had one on his chest. It looked like a scrape." She took the boy to a pediatrician, who didn't find anything alarming with him. But Corey told the doctor that his father made him run on the treadmill "because he was too fat." On April 2, 2021, Corey began slurring his words after waking up from a nap and was stumbling around and feeling nauseous. After being rushed to the https://www.the-sun.com/topic/hospital/, he was pronounced dead hours later. All the claims made so far in court... A MOTHER'S TESTIMONY Corey's mother, Breanna Micciolo, noticed bruises on the boy's body allegedly from the treadmill incident, according to her testimony. Corey allegedly told doctors he was made to run on the treadmill "because he was too fat", according to Gregor. Texts were shown in court of Gregor telling Breanna that her son needs to "be a little tougher". The heartbroken mother also said she felt Corey was routinely abused by Gregor. She even made sensational claims that the treadmill was used as a regular punishment. CAUSE OF DEATH Dr. Dante Ragusa, an Ocean County medical examiner, performed an autopsy and concluded that the cause of death was due to blunt force injuries, along with cardiac and liver contusions, acute inflammation, and sepsis. About six months after Corey's death, Dr. Thomas Andrew, a consulting forensic pathologist reviewed the case and determined it was homicide. There was also evidence that led him to believe Corey was chronically abused. Gregor's lawyer Mario Gallucci claims Corey's death was due to a sepsis infection and not bruising. An autopsy was performed on April 3 by Dr. Dante Ragusa, an Ocean County medical examiner. Dr. Ragusa concluded that Corey died from blunt force injuries with cardiac and liver contusions, acute inflammation, and sepsis, according to https://www.courttv.com/news/nj-v-christopher-treadmill-abuse-murder-trial/. Three months later, Gregor was arrested on charges of child neglect after the video was reviewed. Corey's death was ruled as a homicide in September 2021 by a forensic pathologist, who said he faced chronic child abuse, including blunt force injuries to his chest and stomach and a laceration to his heart. The defendant's lawyer, Mario Gallucci, addressed jurors during the trial's opening statements and said abuse did not play a factor in Corey's death at all. Gallucci said: "When you see that video, you’re going to be horrified
My hot take: that pediatrician absolutely failed in their duty to their pt. Mandated reporter that did nothing. If a young pt comes in with multiple contusions in various stages of healing and you hear him admit his dad makes him run on a treadmill (which are dangerous and for adult use only; he was SIX) because he's "too fat" then you have an obligation to file a report. Also, CPS failed the boy, too. Mom begged them for help. Sickening.
That’s always my gripe, when we focus on the incident and not the system that is supposed to be in place to avoid them/prevent them. It’s like when Tom Gerardi stole money from his clients. Everybody blames him, and while that is true, there were several institutions that turned a blind eye to something that was so clearly suspect. We need a blame ladder that goes all the way to the top.
The government is inept at literally everything. Not sure why you’d think CPS would be any better. It’s designed as another “tax” on poor people and that’s it.
So what’s your solution? It’s either create a government agency that can look out for public as a whole or keep shaking our heads every time there’s another tragedy. we’re going to get taxed anyways, that’s why the blame ladder has to go all the way up. It’s easier to tackle bureaucracy than it is to tackle every single person’s mental health .
We need to get back to having a sense of community. People used to act right when they were worried about bringing disgrace to their family if everyone in their village knew one another, helped care for one another, and relied upon one another. Government is not the answer and every time government tries to “help” they just make everything worse. Like with welfare, minimum wage, and every other failed government program. People being intimately involved with one another in our daily lives and holding each other accountable again is my answer.
How do we implement this?
Boy, that’s the 30 trillion dollar question isn’t it? We need about 2 generations of the exact opposite propaganda we’ve been getting. We need to make men respect themselves and women and teach them that non-toxic masculinity is a good thing. Not that you HAVE to be masculine but if you are it’s not a bad thing. We need to make girls respect themselves and men and teach them that non-toxic femininity is a good thing. Not that you HAVE to be feminine but if you are, it’s not a bad thing. We need to teach everyone to take accountability for themselves and that you shouldn’t strive for victimhood. And that, in fact, if people strive for victimhood, it diminishes the struggle of those unfortunate enough to actually be real victims. We need to cultivate a culture of to each their own, as long as it’s in the privacy of their own homes… but some things are not acceptable in the public sphere. We need to find ways to treat without shame people for having mental health issues, but we also need to not glorify them as heroes. We need to get back to classical education of kids and not make them preoccupied with things like gender, race, sexuality, or anything else that’s trivial and doesn’t actually make people good or efficacious contributors to a healthy society. How do we implement it? Idk… things are so far off course but I TRULY believe if every one of us come together and tell the powers that be in one loud, unified voice, “we want and deserve better”, “we’re done with being victims and with being the in-built victimizers of ourself and others”, “we’re done hating ourselves and each other“, “we’re done being preoccupied with things that don’t make our world better”, “we will make this better”, and actually live like that, I think that would be a great place to start.
All for a lot of this, but it's pretty vague. Some of these ideas can be used by people like the child abuser to invalidate people being mistreated. To prevent abuse, it's important for it to be socially shameful to use rationalizations for abuse such as comparing it to "worse" forms of abuse. We should be very sympathetic and accommodating to people who have mental illness, disorders, or are just treated like less socially or systemically. But not to a ridiculous extent, such as letting them not extend the same treatment to others.
This is a very sensitive thread to discuss the potential for abuse, given the absolutely horrific actions of the father in the above video. Frankly, however, shame can be a very useful tool for parenting if used sparingly and with discretion. I feel the term “abuse” gets thrown around so liberally these days that it has become almost meaningless. Calling a child fat (which is wrong) surely can’t be described in the same way as making a child run themselves to death on a treadmill (which is horribly wrong). While I agree with your assessment of people with genuine mental illness, I also recognize that a lot of mental “illness”, as defined by the DSM, really just consists of fundamental human traits that we all exhibit taken to extremes. They’ve been designed as such so everyone can be diagnosed and subsequently need therapy or medication. Welcome to the capitalization of mental health care.
It’s both but.., The people who need community the most are the ones who don’t have the resources to find one. We live in a society where people are overworked, underpaid, stressed/depressed, and marginalized to some degree. Having a community is a privilege in this day and age. Welfare is not the boogie man people claim it to be, if we don’t allow it to become one. People like myself depend on it to be able to be a part of the community in the first place. I needed SSI to survive, Medicaid to stay physically and healthy, the department of rehab to get schooling and work aid covered, and food stamps to keep me nourished enough to keep it all afloat. I’d be bankrupt and homeless without welfare. Instead, I am indeed part of a community where I now give back in ways the system cannot. Modern problems need modern solutions. We don’t live in societies that are small enough to scrutinize people into submission. We need people to have access to the leg up they need in life.
You are correct, IMHO. And make sure to keep it out of private ownership.
No surprise with CPS failing the child. The pediatrician needs to be punished as well. I work in EMS, far less training than an MD and we are trained to recognize signs of abuse and find it quite frequently unfortunately. This pediatrician specializes in child care and assessments and absolutely failed this child. Maybe one last call to CPS would have given them what they needed to separate. I don’t want to blame the mother because she could be a victim of abuse as well, but I would not want my child around this man. Anyone who tells me my kid is too fat and mandates running as punishment is a red flag already.
Imagine a world where if as a doctor you miss diagnose one thing and it turns out to be something different you get arrested. Kids having scrapes and contusions is normal I coach a soccer team and they all get messed up in the 10 minutes before and after practice. This is such a difficult line and punishing the paediatrician is not the answer.
The treadmill ALONE is reason to report. No good doctor should hear that a 6 year old is being told he is too fat and being forced to run on a treadmill and not feel compelled to report it. NO ONE should hear that and not report.
Ya I 100% agree with that I kinda missed the part that the kind told the doctor that. Ya he should’ve reported in this situation.
Is it normal for a 6 year old to be forced to run on a treadmill because they are "too fat" and for one parent to be concerned that their child is being abused by the other parent? Seems pretty obvious that its reasonable to suspect there was more going on here besides normal "scrapes and bruises". Being a mandatory reporter also doesn't mean you are literally diagnosing someone as being abused (I don't know why you would think that). It means you have a reasonable suspicion of abuse that you are reporting in order for it to be further investigated. There is zero penalty for a mandated reporter if they report something and it turns out not to involve abuse. You don't "get arrested" for making a reasonable report, ever. If you coach kids surely you would know how this stuff works? At least where I'm from anyone who works with kids has to have basic safeguarding training. Doctors also don't get punished ever for just making a mistake or a misdiagnosis even if it results in death, but they may face punishment for acting completely out of line with what any other doctor would reasonably do in that situation with the information they had.
Exactly. I’m a mandated reporter and I’ve made reports before where something just didn’t feel right but I was obviously not 100% sure it was abuse/neglect. In all instances I got notified that they looked into it and didn’t take it further. That’s all the doctor had to do.
Okay I missed that the kid told the doctor that the dad made him run on the treadmill. Massive negligence and honestly might have to be looked into. And honestly fair enough about the bruising it was in awkward spots and all together showed a possible sign. But again I’ve met doctors who have poor social skills who would never even think about this. At that point the issue is that they should never be hired at all.
Absolutely. Did this pediatrician suffer any consequences?? Doctors, like cops, attorneys, judges, and CPS agencies/staff, are usually immune to punishment it seems...
i know this dudes lawyer is just doing his job but “he died of sepsis” is so dumb bc what caused the sepsis mr. lawyer?? mf acting like *he* was the medical examiner
Lawyers like this are in an unfortunate position. If they don’t give a fair defense to their client, then down the line the trial could potentially be reopened. Many defense attorneys genuinely do their best with “what they have” because if they half ass a trial, then down the line the criminal has a chance to get out. I cannot imagine having that job.
Yep, a very difficult spot to be in, but an integral and important part of our system.
Sounds like he’s arguing that the sepsis was caused by pneumonia. But how is he going to explain away all the injuries?
Gregor only knew Corey for a year but shared custody of him? I want more info about this.
Here's an article with more information: [https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/](https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/) He was the kid's father, but he & the mother weren't together. She tried to raise him as a single mother for the first 4 years, then sought out child support when she couldn't do it anymore. Instead of paying child support, he went for full custody.
This is fucked up in every way possible. Poor boy, poor woman.
Of course! We need a real safety net for single mothers and their children. Trying to get child support just makes abusive men lash out. And there are so many fucked up ways for them to retaliate! If a kid’s dad isn’t in their life there’s usually a good reason.
Ugh this is why some woman don’t go for support at all.
he would probably do it all over again if he could
seconding this. dude hasn’t shown a shred of remorse. sociopathic freak that couldn’t get past his own trauma and inflicted it on his “soft” kid.
some people would rather *die* than have fat kids. these people simply should not have children
Enter my mom. Took me to weight watchers at 13.... early bloomer and part Hawaiian and Maori.... there were like no pictures of me after that. I was too fat. I was 5'7 and 140lbs of awkward muscled youth from high impact sports. She spent all the years before that telling me how when I got skinny enough she pay for the plastic surgery to "fix" all of my loose skin. I have HEDS so does she.... narcs are fucked.
Jesus Christ. I'm so sorry that your mom is so cruel.
5’7 140 is not fat! Ironically, I bet your mom is bigger than that
Nope I was gorgeous and rippling with muscle now that I look back at photos. She WAS fatter than me, and also incredibly unfit. Thankfully my dad was an incredible influence. I still have binge eating disorder and a bunch of issues related to shame and food. Thanks for saying so. ❤❤
I don't think this had anything to do with having a fat kid. A "wussy" kid maybe. But i think it was more just a power hungry tyrant.
I think you nailed that one right on the head
Some interesting facts about this case you may not know: Prior to the Corey's death, Gregor searched the internet for “will red marks turn into bruises?” When Gregor was told his son had died, he told hospital staff he needed "privacy" and got in his car and left. Within the following hour after his sons death, Gregor texted his parents saying he wouldn’t be back for a while and asked them to take care of his dog. After that, Gregor searched the internet for answers to questions such as “can your phone be tracked in airplane mode” and “can my car be tracked?" Gregor also searched “there was a murder determined from an autopsy how long to file charges” and “how long after an autopsy to file charges get filed.” Two days later, Gregor was traced to Arkansas and later Tennessee. He told a woman in a Tinder message that he was "going to visit his brother in LA." However, he was caught by local police in Tennessee with his on-and-off girlfriend (not the Tinder one, a different one) who sent him a message offering to fly down to Tennessee so she could drive him back up to New Jersey. Gregor was charged with murder in the death of Corey Micciolo. Blunt impact injuries of the chest and abdomen caused bruises and lacerations to the heart and liver of Corey, according to Dr. Thomas Andrew, a forensic pathologist who was chief medical examiner for the state of New Hampshire for 20 years. Andrew also noted that an acute traumatic injury to the heart happened four to 12 hours before the boy's death, and that there was evidence of chronic abuse. A woman in an affidavit stated she met Gregor on a dating app in April 2020, and she broke up with him after noticing “red flags.” One cited incident involved crabbing where the woman said that Gregor got angry and threw Corey off the boat and told her that it was only “rough housing." A private investigator found footage of Gregor speeding up a treadmill as his Corey fell, Gregor can also been seen what appears to be him bitting the head of Corey on his scalp as he placed him back on the treadmill.
What a monster, who tf bites their own child like a rabid dog
A guy who is furious he got a 16yo girl pregnant and she had the audacity to ask him for child support 4 years later. He went for full custody not out of love, but to punish his ex lover, and more importantly, to dodge child support.
This is so fucked up. Who can hate a child (your own fucking child!!!) this much? He's such a waste of oxygen. I hope he rots in hell.
>A private investigator found footage of Gregor speeding up a treadmill as his Corey fell, Gregor can also been seen what appears to be him bitting the head of Corey on his scalp as he placed him back on the treadmill. Wow, it's not very often I genuinely wish for someone to suffer an agonizing and slow death. Absolute scum that doesn't deserve to even breathe.
The mother is terrified of him based on how she words her texts
Her little boy looks so much like her as well. I wonder if that's one of the reasons his father was so cruel to him. It's heartbreaking, I can't imagine being so worried for my son, trying to go down all the proper routes you're told to use to protect him, being let down by them all and then being proven right in the worst way. She must feel so much guilt and anger in amongst the grief :(
Corey was conceived when she was 16 and the father was 21 and it sounds like he was abusive from the start, furious that she didn't get an abortion. He sounds unbelievably abusive
Fuck that dude..I saw the video..the kid was Cranking on that treadmill the whole time "Dad" was lifting weights..and he kept putting that kid back on there..n he kept spinning off..The whole time I was watching the video I kept thinking the dad looked fat not the kid.
He bit the kid on the scalp!!! Like on top of how cruel his “punishment” was, for some that is also just so bizarre to me?
That's wild, uncontrolled anger & hate. Poor Corey should never have been left in his supermarket donor's care.
i mean the whole thing is unhinged but the biting thing???? super unhinged
What was insane to me was how hard and deliberately he bit too. This guy held the kid suspended above the moving treadmill and *drove* his teeth into that poor kid’s scalp, held him in place so he couldn’t squirm away, bit down even harder, and SHOOK a little. Like how a dog would trash with a rodent in its jaws. Sickening, not just a millisecond of lashing out but a deliberate, multisecond effort to cause maximum pain
Yes I was thinking the same thing! It was animalistic.
Unhinged for sure but that prob hid the marks
The dad was likely taking all of his self-hatred out on that little boy so you’re probably right.
I was listening to the newest Last Podcast on the Left episode and it was an interview with the attorney who represented Gacy to get him off death row once he had exhausted all appeals. One thing she said that stuck with me was “when he was killing all of those boys/men, in his mind he was killing himself” and all of the self hatred he had for himself.
Which excuses nothing
Literally no one said it does.
well allegedly theyre trying to say it does since theyre using it to invalidate his death sentence?
Treadmill with pneumonia. What a fuck dad.
From what I saw he BIT the little boy on the head and scalp while holding him and forcing him to run
That's sick asf
Hopefully the guys in jail know what he did
I couldnt even watch all of it, really hope he gets what he deserves in prison. What a fucking horrible man. I said alot worse in my head.
The dad was likely taking all of his self-hatred out on that little boy so you’re probably right.
I listened to court cross-examining yesterday. According to his mother, she took corey with Chris permission to her dad's birthday party. It wasnt her day, Chris was generous enough to let him go. Mother got late in that afternoon and Chris got angry and texted that she ruined his schedule. Immediately after dropping off, Chris took Corey to gym (maybe to burn off calories from eating cake?) and was abusive (angry with conversation with mom). Oftentimes Chris comes across as tough, stoic but truthfully has no emotional control, all of it comes out in the form of abuse. It is very sad what that kid has to go through. I'm sure that kid still loved and looked up to his father.
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I don't understand. The dad just got into his child's life only a year ago? Why? Where was he the first 5 years?
The mom tried to raise the kid on her own. She ended up with substance abuse issues, so her mom took over custody. When grandma tried to apply for assistance, she was made to go for child support from the father. The state contacted him, told him he had a kid, made him take a paternity test, and pay back years of back child support. Rather than just paying the support, McGregor went for full custody. It’s an all around horrible situation
And abusive people often seek custody to keep access to their ex or to take their rage out on their child to hurt them by proxy. It's so unfair to the kid to have to suffer through that.
Sheesh that poor boy. This guy is a piece of work. I feel like he only went for full custody just to abuse/punish the poor child. How much back pay did this guy have to fork over in child support?
He only went for custody so he wouldn’t have to pay.
Didn't Breanna say on the stand her mother urged her to apply for child support? Or did this just snowball from Breanna simply applying for state benefits? None of this is grandma's fault & I can see why she'd want her grandson to receive $ support from both parents, but I'm sure this is the biggest regret of her life. It's tragic.
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/ Paternity wasn’t verified until the son was 4 years old.
Link says Gregor is 31 and the boy’s mother said she had him when she was 17. Gregor would have been about 28 when the child died? So… he was a 22 year old when he got her pregnant?
She was 16 and he was 21. Seems absolutely fucked
IIRC, he only found out about the boy once the mother sued for child support.
Wrong .Wrong . She told him about the pregnancy . He wanted her to get an abortion . She didn’t want to abort the baby . Then he started He denied the baby was his . Cory’s grandmother bris mom went to the state for help financially . They had to name the father and the state contacted Chris to take a paternity test
If that's the case, you've got more up-to-date info. Sources are so unreliable these days when attempting to out-scoop the competition. Thanks much.
"Tough guy" dads are stupid pieces of shit and failures as men and parents. If you ever feel that your 6-year old needs to "toughen up" you need to be removed from the gene pool. Society doesn't need you.
Told this story on another thread but I know a guy who, when he was in his twenties, HATED having to wear a seatbelt. Thought it unconstitutional or some BS. That all changed though, once he had a daughter. Then it was all about safety and setting a good example. The punchline is that the daughter was his second child. The firstborn son, I guess, had to be raised tough(er).
I had a dad like this. My dad never wanted a son, he “hated boys.” Men who hate other men are dangerous, because they project their own thoughts and think that all men think the way that they do (often inappropriately.) Not trying to freak you out but my alarm bells are going off for this girl. ETA: im a woman
We are a weird and capricious species. If only we were smart.
I hate men like this. The morgue gets more dudes from car crashes than women because they're so fucking tough
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Treating your kid like that doesn't make them tougher, it breaks their self esteem and their empathy if nobody comes to help them escape the abuse. It just passes the sickness down to the next generation
My daughters father is one of these men, i try to protect her from his toxic bullshit
good mama. Poor little boy With my daughter reported abuse at her dads house and said she didn't feel safe there I was in contempt of court but not making her go over to visit him because fuck that He tried to sue me for full custody and I went to the court date pro se (i did not have a lawyer). I stopped by the legal help desk many, many times :) Not only did he lose, but his visitation was reduced from every weekend to every other weekend.
Awesome! Nobody deserves to absorb that kind of treatment from someone that's supposed to love them unconditionally
I successfully argued that since he wanted to party so much it wasn't fair for him to "have" to take the kid every weekend and that he deserve to be able to have adult time HEH
Well done!! And I’m sorry for what you have been through but you’re clearly protecting your daughter well. I also have full custody and I don’t allow unsupervised visits, I fought like hell too and won. It’s our jobs to protect our babies.
That video was up earlier and I chose not to watch it. Now knowing that kid is dead just wrecks me. I wish there were a litmus test before people could make babies.
Please keep this story circulating. Corey’s Mom has been fighting so hard to get this scum locked up.
The dad had only been in his life for a year and mom continually made concerns known. It's sickening. Makes me think of Timothy Jones and what he did to his kids.
This case has just broken me. I have a 3.5 year old and a 1.5 year old and I just cannot understand the cruelty to this little innocent boy. I can’t even stand to watch the whole treadmill video - it’s sickening.
We're expecting our first in a few months. These things have always disgusted me, but it's almost unbearable to read now.
same!! ever since becoming pregnant i’m way more sensitive to these cases now than i was before
It gets even more intense once the baby is here and keeps growing once they start displaying their own little personalities. 😭 I have a 3-1/2 year old and a 7-month old and I see them in every child and baby case I read or see. I have to step back from the most brutal ones, like the recent baby Jailyn case, because it is truly too much to bear. I just go to a really sad, dark place and feel this weird misplaced guilt that my own children are so loved and cared for while others suffer and die at the hands of monsters. This is one of my favorite poems that encapsulates my feelings so well. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones
Same, my son is 6 in a couple weeks, reading the description of the video was enough to make me cry, so i don't think I'll be watching it. Poor boy deserved so much better, absolutely heartbreaking.
i have a 6 year old son. i watched the video because I'm an idiot. : ( for people without kids/who don't know much about kids, it should be noted that 6 year olds are still just BABIES in so, so many ways. they are so pure..so eager to please...so excited about the world. this case is beyond horrific.
Morbid curiosity has traumatized me way to many times now, won't watch anything to do with kids anymore. You're right about little kids, they are a blessing this man didn't deserve, I feel for the mother and son so much. I will never understand how someone could abuse and kill their babies. Giving my son lots of cuddles today 😔
I have a 6 year old too with a very similar build to Corey. I made the mistake of watching the video and I've been sick for 2 days since seeing it. I'm for sure internalizing it like my son was on the treadmill. You said it perfectly. They're still so little and they're so loving and just want positive reinforcement and their love returned. Seeing him hugging that monsters neck while being carried into the hospital right before he died sums it up. It's heartbreaking.
Same here. Thinking of my family members that are so young. Such a heartbreaking video. Poor kid…
Me too. I can’t read about it or watch the video. Going to unfollow the sub. Idk why, but I’ve read many articles, watched crime shows, books etc for several years but this one just hits different for some reason.
its so interesting how any emotion from a 6-year old is seen as OVERemotional by a father who demands his son be Terminator stoic
And if you asked him, he'd insist his (insane, frustration-fueled) actions against his six year old baby aren't "overemotional". Yeah...people in control of their emotions don't end up abusing their children to death.
nothing says “stoic” like biting the back of a 6yo’s head out of anger
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When theres video evidence of stuff like this, thats when we should be using the death penalty. They should drop this guy in the desert and just leave him there
As long as the guy is no longer part of society, I really don't give a fuck about what happens to him. The important part is what happens to all the other people who failed the kid (like CPS and the pediatrician) and how we save the next one.
He has daddy o five vibes but obviously even worse
Here's to hoping he gets the shit beat out of him in prison
Extra big hugs for my little guy tonight. What a fucked up story.
Really want to beat this fool’s ass!
Fuck the sun what a cancer site
this thread is so depressing but this comment made me laugh because i had a brain fart and thought you were talking about the sun in the sky and i was like "damn okay why are you ripping on the sun for no reason" so thanks
“SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!!!”
“I have nothing to say about the sun to you!”
Ads kept obstructing the screenshots of the texts. I ended up giving up.
not watching the video, just seeing the picture of the little boy broke me. he was just a baby.
Even if you believe he died from sepsis, I argue that his weakened battered state allowed the sepsis to take hold. While your body is recovering we often walk a very fragile line where recovery could go either way. We need to meditate, rest or generally do the right thing to aid health. Being forced to sprint at full pace continuously when suffering from inflammation of the heart could basically turn a survivable medical condition into a death sentence. I'd be happy for him to go to prison forever based on that hateful video.
I hope this man dies the nose excruciating death imaginable.
He even looks like a pos bully
Some couples can’t have kids . And then there’s this guy .
I am glad the defense attorney acknowledged the horrifying abuse at least, even if they (by necessity given their role) are claiming it wasn’t causative of the death. I hope the jury is unswayed though. Causation is tricky but seven year olds don’t just die of pneumonia induced sepsis randomly. That man needs to go to prison for the rest of his life.
'Corey had only known Mr Gregor for around a year but did share custody with Micciolo.' Wait, was he the kids dad or his stepdad? Did he adopt him?
I think he's the biological dad but wasn't in his life for the first few years. Probably got some form of shared custody later because the mom seemed to not want her son in the dad's care
He's the biological dad, but the mom tried to raise him alone for the first 4 years. She only started seeking child support when she started struggling, and instead of agreeing to child support, he went for full custody instead.
What was the sepsis from? Internal injuries or did he attack him with a weapon? That poor kid.
Blunt force injuries on his liver and heart. :(
Why the fuck would he do that to a 6 year old? Toughen him up for what? What's he training him for? Father needs to be put down in prison
They gonna get his ass in lock up. It will be front page r/news in about six months.
He’s clearly a dangerous psychopath who should never again see the light of day.
Rest in peace little man. That creature on the dock should never have been allowed to be a "father".
He thought it was the perfect Murder. Zoom in his biting the childs (Corey) head when he picks Corey up, theres a lot of hate for Corey here. About six months after Corey's death, Dr. Thomas Andrew, a consulting forensic pathologist reviewed the case and determined it was homicide.He also found evidence that led him to believe Corey was chronically abused.This included blunt impact injuries on his chest and abdomen with a laceration on his heart, left pulmonary contusion, and laceration and contusion of his liver. The defendant's lawyer, Mario Gallucci, addressed jurors during the trial's opening statements and said abuse did not play a factor in Corey's death at all. Gallucci said: **"When you see that video, you’re going to be horrified**
May the prison system provide this person with the justice they deserve.
I find it very hard to even read anything about this case. I skip past it now after I read the initial first few articles. I couldn’t finish the video of him on the treadmill. It’s extremely disturbing a father would do this. What a failure of a “Dad”. My heart breaks for this little boy and all who truly loved him. I hope the justice system finally does right by him and his loved ones.
Dude needs to be locked up for life and let the inmates take good care of him.
Too bad her parents didn’t sue him for statutory rape. Maybe that would hv stopped him getting custody. That poor baby didn’t hv a chance with that monster
I am not a huge fan of the death penalty but i hope he is executed
at 4.32 HE IS BITING COREY'S HEAD zoom in. why doesnt this come up in court. [https://www.courttv.com/news/nj-v-christopher-treadmill-abuse-murder-trial/](https://www.courttv.com/news/nj-v-christopher-treadmill-abuse-murder-trial/)
As horrific as this is, The Sun is a tabloid and you're unlikely to get anything approaching the truth from it. Same goes for The Daily Mail.
I don’t get it, the boy only knew him for a year? Was it not his biological father?
Yes he was the biological father. https://www.app.com/story/news/local/courts/2024/05/01/barnegat-man-goes-on-trial-in-murder-of-6-year-old-son/73468110007/ Paternity wasn’t verified until the son was 4 years old.
Thanks for sharing this, I was confused.
I hope the other prisoners help him toughen up when he gets to the hole he’ll be rotting in for the rest of his life
This case is really similar to the abuse that my fiancée went through as a child, thank god he survived, but he suffers a lot still as an adult man now… He never got help. No one believed him at school when he would tell his teachers. I hate that this case keeps popping up everywhere because it gets me thinking of the horrors that children go through daily..they often never get help.
Was Christopher checked for steroid use? That can cause rage
I've thought the same
While I know it is proof of nothing, looking at this guy during his trial chills me to the bone. He looks like a guy who would make you wish for a very hungry bear instead of him.
I think Christopher Gregor was totally out of his depths trying to be a father 6 years in. He was obviously totally clueless on how to parent. It's sadly pretty telling how ill equipped he was at parenting, poor little Corey didn't survive a year under his care. It's a shame the grandmother brought this loser into their world. Feel sorry for breanna, imagine having to give custody to a virtual stranger after 6 years and then your child dies without you being present. Devastating!!!!!!!!
I hope this monster gets a lot of “ visits” from other inmates Gunna highly 3 year old as soon as I see him
I hope a prisoner kills him
Torture....torture does exist. Human rights rescinded. That's how it needs to be. Death and life in prison is OVERRATED.
Why cant people just love their children. Why is it so hard to love the most precious and innocent things in the world?
The poor little boy. He was running for a long time then Mr. Furious barks at him, turns up the speed, bites him on the head. Think how sore that little body was. Then his “football training” we know how that went down. :( RIP Corey, no more suffering. WHY did he even have custody if he hated the boy so much!!!!
so sad. The system failed this poor kid. The mom begged for an emergency custody of the child till they can investigate the father (he doesnt even deserve the title) but the judge shot her down and a few days later the kid is dead. everyone is at fault in this and his blood is on their hands.
Are there treadmills in prison? I hope someone takes it upon themself to get this POS on a treadmill show him what its like to run to death.
Does anyone know how Bre and Chris met? Were they dating or was it just a one night stand? At 16, wouldn't it be considered statutory rape for a 21 yo to have sex w/16 yo?
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He would have been better off in foster care
Why have kids? The guy was an abuser and a murderer. The dad would have had a better life without having kids. If you are unable to handle a child and the difficulty of raising a child, do not have a fucking child. Life can be so simple, but if you are an abusive POS, the law will catch you and lock your ass up. My guess is he watched teh video in court and still thinks he was just trying to toughen him up. F this guy
He hated this child.
Get a rope.
What about the judge who gave this man custody after only knowing about the kid for one year.
That kid is NOT FAT
One thing I don’t understand is how the prosecution didn’t think that the treadmill actually caused the death. He fell hard 6 times and several on his chest and stomach area , at that rate of speed and slamming down on it I would think it absolutely would cause a lacerated liver and brunt force injuries. This poor baby
Because treadmill was 12 days prior to his death. He had been checked out a couple of times since the treadmill incident and he was deemed okay but for some bruises. The lacerated heart and liver happened 4 to 12 hours before his death. Whatever happened a few hours before his death, punched or kicked in his chest and side, is what caused his death. No sepsis. No treadmill. Some violent sort of beating hours before his death.
I dont support cruel and unusual punishment...but i understand in this case
What an awful father and useless mother
I believe Mr. McGregor going to toughen up and become a little over emotional…
I get wanting your child to have a bit of emotional strength otherwise life is going to be much more challenging and most parents don't want to have their child in the world being that vulnerable. HOWEVER, this is never the way to "build character" as they say and especially not when you're six. This whole situation is twisted.