Expert eviscerates claims by dad accused in son’s treadmill death that 6-year-old died of sepsis: ‘Not one scintilla of evidence’.
A forensic pathologist eviscerated accused murderer and child abuser Christopher Gregor’s claims that his son died of sepsis during testimony Wednesday — outlining in harrowing detail the bodily contusions the 6-year-old allegedly suffered under his father’s care, including forcing the youngster to run on a treadmill at high speeds.
“There is no, zero, not one scintilla of evidence of sepsis or any other infection on Corey,” pathologist Dr. Thomas A. Andrew testified from the stand in Orange County, New Jersey, on the fifth day of Gregor’s murder trial.
The accused killer dad’s defense had argued his son, Corey Micciolo, had contracted sepsis from an infection possibly brought on by pneumonia, according to the Asbury Park Press — but Andrews testified the child died from contusions and lacerations found “over a wide area of his body.”
Those injuries included a laceration on little Corey’s heart near his left ventricle, contusions to his liver, and blunt force trauma to his chest.
The injuries indicated the boy had been murdered, Andrews testified.
Days before Corey’s 2021 death, Gregor, 31, was caught on camera forcing the boy to run on a speeding treadmill until he was thrown from the machine — then forced him to get back on to run and fall several times over.
At one point, Gregor even appeared to bite the top of the boy’s head.
On April 2, 2021, just over a week later, Corey was brought into the hospital with slurred speech, vomiting, trouble breathing and nausea.
The boy’s heart stopped shortly after arriving at the hospital and staff were unable to revive him.
While medics frantically tried to revive the child, Gregor allegedly left the room, leaving the boy to die without a family member by his side.
“We were the only ones with him,” Lindsay Carnevale, a nurse at the Southern Ocean County Medical Center who helped treat Corey that day, testified Tuesday.
Andrews testified the nature and time of Corey’s death led him at first to conclude the fatal injuries had been inflicted between 5 a.m. and 1 p.m. the day of his death — which meant they could have happened while in his mother Bre Micciolo’s custody — but that a video later shown to jurors led him to believe it happened later, while Corey was in Gregor’s care.
That video, just audio accidentally recorded by Micciolo while dropping Corey off at Gregor’s around 9 a.m., heard the boy speaking in a normal and unafflicted voice — leading Andrews to conclude his fatal injuries must have been sustained when he was with his father.
“A child is not going to respond in that fashion if he has already sustained those lethal injuries,” Andrews said.
Gregor faces 30 years to life if convicted of murdering his son.
