The father whose son died days after he allegedly forced the boy to run at high speeds on a treadmill callously left the room while medics were struggling to revive the youngster, according to testimony from his New Jersey murder trial.
Christopher Gregor, 31, allegedly walked out of the emergency room as nurses were scrambling to keep his son Corey Micciolo alive — leaving the then-5-year-old to die in the company of strangers rather than a family member.
“We were the only ones with him,” testified Lindsay Carnevale, a nurse at the Southern Ocean County Medical Center who helped treat little Corey when he was brought in on the afternoon of April 2, 2021.
The boy had woken that day with slurred speech, trouble breathing and nausea, and by the time his father brought him to the hospital at nearly 4 p.m., doctors determined the child needed to be intubated.
Carnevale testified that Gregor was emotionless when he brought Corey in, according to the Asbury Park Press, and that he left the boy for a period before briefly returning and then finally walking out again moments later.
Corey was pronounced dead at 5:02 p.m., and less than 20 minutes later, surveillance footage showed his father driving away from the hospital.
Just over a week before Corey was brought to the hospital, his father had forced him to run on a treadmill at a local gym and turned up the speed until the boy was sent sprawling to the ground, disturbing video showed.
Gregor then picked his son back up and set him on the machine until he fell again several more times.
Days later, Corey’s mother Bre Micciolo reported injuries the child sustained in the incident to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, and the boy was taken to a hospital on April 1.
During that visit, Corey allegedly told doctors his father had forced him to run on the treadmill because he “was too fat.”
The next day, he was brought to the hospital again after waking up with frightening symptoms and suffered a seizure during a CT scan and died as staff tried to save him.
An autopsy ruled Corey’s death a homicide after it was determined he suffered blunt force trauma to his chest and abdomen, lacerations and contusions to both his liver and heart, and indications of chronic abuse.
Gregor faces 30 years to life in prison if he is convicted of murder.
