Dad Sentenced For Manslaughter After Forcing 6-Year-Old To Run On Speeding Treadmill

A New Jersey father who was convicted of aggravated manslaughter and endangering a child in the death of his 6-year-old son was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday.

Christopher Gregor, 31, was captured in a shocking video played in court that showed him forcing Corey Micciolo to run on a treadmill at high speed. The boy died on May 31 of injuries related to his father’s abuse.

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 seems to be biting his son’s head, HuffPost previously reported.

Corey’s mother, Breanna Micciolo 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.

Corey was released back into his mother’s care at about 1 a.m. Text messages revealed in court showed Gregor accusing her of kidnapping their son because she had missed the 7 p.m. drop-off deadline the night before.

Micciolo testified that Gregor called her the following day to inform her Corey was sick, and that he had taken him to the hospital.

Surveillance footage from the hospital lobby shows Gregor carrying his son over his shoulder. An emergency room nurse testified in court that Corey had suffered seizures and