An emergency room nurse testifying in the trial of a New Jersey father who forced his 6-year-old son to run on a high-speed treadmill until he collapsed didn’t even stay in the emergency room while medical personnel tried to save the boy’s life.
Christopher Gregor, 31, had already been in and out of the treatment room several times after he carried his son’s lifeless body in on April 2, 2021, but when the child’ heart stopped for a second time, Gregor walked out and never returned, the Asbury Park Press reported.
A prosecutor asked nurse Linday Carnevale who stayed with Corey Micciolo.
“We did,” she said. “We were the only ones with him.”
The boy was pronounced dead just after 5 p.m., and Gregor was seen in surveillance video played to the court driving away in his car at 5:20 p.m.
As CrimeOnline reported, two previous video played during Gregor’s murder trial showed the boy on the treadmill and Gregor carrying his limp body in to Southern Ocean County Medical Center.
In the treadmill video, Gregor set the speed on high and forced Corey to run for 12 minutes, picking him up and putting him back on when he fell. At one point, he appeared to bite his son on the head as he put him back onto the racing exercise machine.
Corey died from “blunt force injuries with cardiac and liver contusions with acute inflammation and sepsis,” according to the autopsy report. The coroner attributed his death to chronic abuse.
In further testimony on Tuesday, Sgt. Raymond Coles of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said that Gregor ignored phone calls from Corey’s mother after leaving the hospital as well as calls from Stafford Township police, the Press said. Instead, he began a series of internet searches, including “Can your phone be traced in airplane mode?” and “Can my car be tracked?,” Coles said.
The next day he searched for information about whether internal bleeding can raise blood and how does grastrointestinal bleeding happen. Later, he typed in, “There was a murder determination from an autopsy – how long to file charges,” Coles testified.
Gregor further deleted more than 3,400 text messages between him and Corey’s mother.
Gregor has pleaded not guilty to murder and endangering the welfare of a child.
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[Featured image: Breanna and Corey Micciolo/Justice for Corey; Handout]
