Dad Who Killed 6-Year-Old Son By Forcing Him To Run On Treadmill Is Sentenced

Video shown in court showed Corey Micciolo struggling as his father, Christopher Gregor, forced him to keep running on a speeding treadmill.

A New Jersey father found guilty of forcing his 6-year-old son to run on a treadmill at high speed, leading to injuries that caused his death, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.

Christopher Gregor, 31, was convicted of aggravated manslaughter and endangering a child in the death of his son, Corey Micciolo, on May 31.

Surveillance footage from March 20, 2021, played during Gregor’s trial, shows Corey repeatedly struggling to stay on top of the moving belt of a treadmill. The boy falls on his face and his back six times as his father continues to force him back on the treadmill. At one point in the footage, Gregor can be seen biting his son’s head, HuffPost previously reported.

Corey’s mother, Breanna Micciolo, who is separated from Gregor, testified at his trial that she filed for emergency custody on March 31, 2021, after seeing her son’s bruises and learning about the treadmill incident. She told the jury that she was “in fear for Corey’s life.”

Micciolo told the jury she took Corey in for multiple medical tests after she grew alarmed about the bruising, but on April 1, 2021, a doctor who treated her son said he did not find signs of infection or respiratory distress.