A video showed a father forcing his 6-year-old son to run on a treadmill because he was “too fat”, resulting in the child dying from injuries in New Jersey.
Christopher Gregor, 31, is on trial for murder in the 2021 death of his young boy Corey after a videotaped exercise that left the child with severe blows, bruises, and fatal injury.
During the trial, Gregor said he brought his son to the hospital after the boy woke up from a nap stumbling, stuttering in his words, suffering from nausea and shortness of breath, and Currie was taken for a CT scan where he had a seizure and then died immediately.
Gregor claimed it was pneumonia that killed him, not the abusive gym session.
In the video, the boy stumbles and falls several times as he tries to keep up with the speed of the device, and Gregor can be seen grabbing Corrie by the shirt, and some of the baby’s head up.
The autopsy showed that the cause of death was severe injuries with bruises to the heart and liver with acute inflammation and sepsis, but he did not judge the manner of death and considered it “undetermined”.
Consultant coroner Dr. Thomas Andrew said after reviewing the case that Currie suffered a severe heart injury 4 to 12 hours before his death.
Andrew found what he described as evidence of chronic abuse, including severe chest and abdominal injuries with a ruptured heart, a bruise to the left lung, a tear and a bruise to the liver.
Gregor was initially arrested for endangering the safety of a child on July 7 due to the treadmill accident, later released after bail, and later arrested for the murder of Corrie on March 9, 2022.
The first session of the trial was held on April 30, 2024, and the second on May 1.
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