Following a month-long trial and nearly two days of juror deliberations, Gregor was beforehand found accountable of child endangerment and aggravated manslaughter for the demise of his son, Corey Micciolo. Gregor was found not accountable of first-degree murder, nonetheless.

On Friday, he was given 20 years for aggravated manslaughter, which he’ll have to serve 85% of sooner than being eligible for parole. For child endangerment, he was given 5 years, with a 858-day credit score rating. The select dominated the two sentences must be served consecutively.

Though Gregor didn’t testify in his private safety in the middle of the trial, he gave an announcement to the courtroom sooner than he was sentenced — first addressing his son’s mother and his ex, Breanna Micciolo.

“Breanna, we’ve not talked since Corey handed away. With the whole thing that has been acknowledged, I merely have to let I’m sorry we misplaced Corey. He was, to say merely, the best,” he began. “I do know we’ll miss him for the rest of our lives”

Calling his time with Corey the “biggest years of his life,” Gregor remembered his son as a “blissful, energetic, loving, radiant, youthful boy,” who “flourished” in his temporary life.

“That may probably be how I keep in mind him. Corey, wherever you’re, I merely have to say I’m happy with you and the whole thing that you simply simply did. The ultimate months of his life, us three — Breanna, Corey and me — we spent further time collectively than apart,” he continued.

Recalling their time collectively, he acknowledged, “I seen how rather a lot Breanna cherished Corey, how rather a lot he cherished her and the way in which correctly we could co-parent collectively. These reminiscences and all the good events, they are going to be what I keep in mind they often help me get by the use of the highly effective days. I hope they may make it easier to too, Breanna.”

“I’m sorry you take into account I could have completed this to our son and it pains me to know that you simply simply view my actions these months collectively as ingenuine, that I could have hurt a really highly effective explicit individual in my life,” Gregor continued, sooner than immediately addressing the treadmill incident.

“What occurred on March 20 was inexcusable. To you, Breanna, your family members, and mine, I have to apologize you wanted to see Corey dealt with that method. He on no account deserved it. I understand the one second will overshadow the entire others, nonetheless it’s not advisor of who I’m, who Corey was and his relationship with me and him,” acknowledged Gregor. “I would like to ensure you that on April 2 [the day of the boy’s death], I did nothing to set off Corey’s passing. I didn’t hurt my son. I cherished him and I nonetheless do. I regret not bringing him to the hospital sooner, I didn’t understand how sick he was, I merely thought he was drained.”

“Corey is gone. He had rather a lot to supply this world and he nonetheless can. What we do in his memory, for his memory, points he would wish us to do, that’s all we’ve now now,” he concluded, sooner than asking the select to “sentence me fairly” and take into “consideration my whole life and by no means merely primarily based totally on the 12 days” from the treadmill incident to the boy’s demise.

Relations on Brenna’s side, nonetheless, pushed for the utmost sentence potential.

“What he acknowledged is not going to be true … if he has the prospect to do it as soon as extra, he’ll do it as soon as extra,” acknowledged the boy’s grandfather. His grandmother known as him a “monster” who she would on no account forgive.

In a extremely emotional second, Breanna took the stand to deal with the courtroom — sporting a t-shirt alongside along with her son’s face on it, whereas saying she’s an “advocate for justice.”

“I stand proper right here to plead for justice that Corey rightfully deserves and to press for the utmost sentence of Christopher Gregor, whose actions inflicted irreparable harm in our lives,” she began, calling their relationship a “traumatic journey outlined by manipulation, abuse and, in the long run, unspeakable loss.”

“I’m proper right here to be his voice and inform his story … not as quickly as have you ever ever seen the defendant shed a tear for Corey inside the ultimate three and a half years since he killed him and proper this second was faux,” she continued, addressing Gregor’s assertion. “I don’t take into account a phrase he says and I don’t accept any apologies. His solely remorse was for himself on account of he obtained caught and convicted.”

“He on no account had an oz. of affection for Corey … he on no account hugged him, he on no account praised him, he on no account instructed him he was happy with him or he did an excellent job,” acknowledged Micciolo. “He punished Corey every probability he could get.”

“As a substitute of being an excellent place model for Corey, he decided to beat him to demise. Why? Had been you jealous of him? Did you hate me rather a lot that you simply simply took it out on Corey?” she requested, sooner than calling him a “monster.”

“One can solely hope karma entails him quickly,” she acknowledged, getting overcome with emotion as she spoke. “Are you that crazy that you simply simply glad your self you didn’t try this? I hate you. I’ll on no account forgive you. You’ve gotten stolen my full potential at happiness and I’ll on no account have my son once more. My daughter received’t ever get to fulfill her brother. My boyfriend received’t ever get to be the daddy the defendant must have been to my son.”

She added she believes Gregor “will kill me” if he ever will get out of jail.

By means of the trial, jurors seen surveillance footage from the Atlantic Heights Clubhouse in Barnegat, N.J., that dated once more to March 20, 2021, the place Gregor — who didn’t testify inside the trial — was seen forcing the boy to utilize a treadmill. Corey fell off the machine six events in surveillance footage, nonetheless was pulled once more up on the treadmill and made to proceed working. At one stage inside the video, Gregor even appeared to chunk his son.

The boy died on the hospital on April 2, the similar day he was launched there by his father. Gregor allegedly left his son alone in his dying moments, sooner than leaving the hospital altogether and by no means answering calls from his ex — the boy’s mother — or police.

Whereas Gregor’s licensed employees immediate Corey died of sepsis from pneumonia, a consulting doctor determined from quite a few bruises and marks on the child, that the “pattern, distribution, and character of the accidents was per ongoing abuse, and situated that the way in which of demise was homicide.”

Prosecutors alleged it was the daddy’s abuse which introduced on his demise.

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