‘Deadbeat dad’s’ mom breaks down in court as she reveals his furious phone call from the hospital after his son died

The mother of a New Jersey ‘beaten dad’ whose son died from abuse broke down in court as she revealed the furious phone call she received from him in hospital after the little boy’s death.

Christopher Gregor, 31, is accused of forcing his six-year-old son, Corey Micciolo, to run on a treadmill because he was “too fat.” The little boy died shortly afterwards from injuries sustained from the alleged abuse.

On the sixth day of Gregor’s trial, his mother Carol Gregor took the stand to remember the moment she learned of Corey’s death from her son.

Carol broke down as she described a phone call she received from Gregor at the hospital where her grandson had died.

“Chris is hysterical,” she said – adding that he furiously shouted “what did she do to him” about the little boy’s mother, Breanna Micciolo.

Gregor’s mother then chokes back tears as she describes the exact moment Gregor told her that “Corey has passed away.”

Carol broke down as she described a phone call she received from Gregor at the hospital where her grandson had died

Christopher Gregor, 31, is accused of forcing his six-year-old son, Corey Micciolo, to run on a treadmill because he was “too fat.” The little boy died shortly afterwards from injuries sustained from the alleged abuse

Gregor is seen breaking down in tears from where he sat in the courtroom. As he cried, he wiped his tears with a handkerchief

“So I call my husband, I’m freaking out at the house,” she said, adding that she screamed hysterically after receiving the devastating news of her grandson’s death

As Carol talks from the stand about her shocked reaction to Corey’s death, Gregor is seen breaking down in tears from where he sat in the courtroom. As he cried, he wiped his tears with a handkerchief.

“I was so worried,” she said. “He was so adamant that something happened when he (Corey) was with his mother.”

Carol then revealed how her youngest son, Danny, received threatening calls on their home phone as she and her husband drove to hospital following the ‘devastating’ news.

Later in the trial, the prosecutor shot Gregor’s mother for not remembering the timeline of the day when asked. She hit back: “I wasn’t looking at a clock. I was hysterical that my grandson had just died; I hadn’t timed things.’

On the fifth day of Christopher Gregor’s murder trial, the New Jersey father spent much of his testimony staring at forensic pathologist Dr. Thomas Andrew, appearing emotional at times as he described the fatal wounds inflicted on his son Corey.

Andrew said Corey, who died in April 2021, lost his life due to blunt force injuries to his chest and abdominal muscles, cuts and bruises to his liver, and a laceration to his heart.

The pathologist ruled that Corey had signs of “stress cardiomyopathy,” a heart condition caused by persistent stress that he testified “suggests that there was persistent physiological stress, most likely due to abuse or abuse.”

Christopher Gregor, 31, is charged with murder over his son’s death, and appeared emotional as jurors heard harrowing testimony about the extent of his injuries

Corey Micciolo, 6, died in 2021 after a year of alleged abuse, with a forensic pathologist ruling he died as a result of blunt force trauma

In a sickening CCTV video shown during Gregor’s ongoing trial, Corey was seen continually falling off the treadmill as Gregor kept picking him up and putting him back on the machine.

Earlier in the trial, the court was shown shocking footage of Gregor forcing his son to run on a treadmill, and lifting him off the floor several times as he fell off the machine.

The footage was taken at a gym in New Jersey less than two weeks before Corey died, where he was rushed to the hospital, dazed and unconscious, hours after being dropped off at his father’s house by his mother.

Corey’s mother Breanna Micciolo – who also testified against Gregor last week – claimed that he had not even met his son until a year before his death, and that Corey routinely came home from his father’s house with fresh cuts and bruises.

Prosecutors alleged that Gregor showed a pattern of abuse for months before Corey was killed, with the forensic pathologist ruling that his cause of death was blunt force injuries administered “by another person.”

Andrew, who did not perform the autopsy but was called in to deliver his verdict shortly after the 2021 death, offered gruesome new details about how the six-year-old died.

Micciolo was the first to appear as a witness in court last Tuesday. She sobbed and wiped at her eyes as she watched the disturbing treadmill video

Corey’s mother shared sickening images of the abuse she said was inflicted by the father on social media, including black eyes and bruises on his body

Corey would often return from his father’s house with new bruises and injuries

Starting with a bruise under Corey’s diaphragm, he said the boy suffered two significant injuries to his liver, including a tear in the liver tissue that caused blood to pool on his pelvis.

Andrew testified that Corey’s body also appeared to have a “pulmonary contusion” on his lung, which caused internal bleeding, and several scalp bruises.

Remarkably, Corey also suffered a fatal laceration “near the tip” of his heart, Andrew said, which was exacerbated by “chronic ongoing stress” in his life.

“The immediate cause of death was blunt force trauma on the day he died,” the pathologist said. ‘But stress cardiomyopathy suggests that there was persistent physiological stress, most likely due to abuse or abuse.’