The verdict is in and the 'treadmill dad' accused of abusing his son, who eventually died, was found guilty. The trial took about four weeks and the jury found Christopher Gregor guilty of child endangerment and aggravated manslaughter after his 6-year-old son, Corey Micciolo, died from all the abusive treadmill workouts. News Nation reported on the crime story out of New Jersey, adding the following information:
Gregor, 31, was initially charged with first-degree murder and endangerment of the welfare of a child stemming from surveillance video from the gym in his apartment complex that showed Gregor forcing his son to run at high speeds on a treadmill. The video shows Gregor continually increasing the speed on the treadmill, which forced his son to fall off the exercise equipment six times. The jury convicted him of the lesser offense of aggravated manslaughter. Gregor’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 2. He faces up to 40 years in prison.
To make this story more sickening, the mother had made about 100 complaints and reports of the father's alleged abuse and it doesn't seem like much was done. The general public is outraged to hear about how she reported the abuse so many times and now people are wondering why it went on for so long, despite being reported so many times. Is the system that bad, that inefficient? Could the boy have been saved?
