New Jersey Father Accused of Abusing 6‑Year-Old Son to Death Abandons Him at Hospital as Strangers Fought to Save His Life

In a shock­ing twist, a New Jer­sey father accused of abus­ing his 6‑year-old son to death alleged­ly aban­doned the boy in the hos­pi­tal room where strangers fought to save his life. Christo­pher Gre­gor, 31, is stand­ing tri­al for the 2021 mur­der of his son Corey Mic­ci­o­lo, who died from alleged chron­ic abuse.

Tes­ti­mo­ny from a nurse who tried to save Corey revealed that Gre­gor left the hos­pi­tal room around 9 min­utes before his son passed away, nev­er to return. “We were the only ones with him,” the nurse, Lind­sey Carnevale, told the court.

Pros­e­cu­tors paint­ed a dis­turb­ing pic­ture of Gre­gor’s alleged abuse, includ­ing forc­ing Corey to run on a tread­mill until he col­lapsed. Evi­dence showed Gre­gor had a his­to­ry of mis­treat­ing the boy, with the child often return­ing home with bruis­es and injuries.

Gre­gor’s phone search­es after Corey’s death also raised sus­pi­cion, as he looked up top­ics like being traced and inter­nal bleed­ing. He is also accused of delet­ing thou­sands of text mes­sages with the boy’s moth­er, Bre­an­na Mic­ci­o­lo, with whom he was locked in a cus­tody dispute.

The trag­ic case has sparked out­rage, with Corey’s moth­er shar­ing har­row­ing images of her son’s injuries on social media and claim­ing child pro­tec­tive ser­vices ignored her pleas for help. Gre­gor faces 30 years to life in prison if con­vict­ed of murder.