The tragic death of Corey Micciolo, the six-year-old boy who was beaten and forced to run on a treadmill by his father for considering him “too fat”, shocked the entire world. This case captured the attention of the country due to the trial ongoing against the parent in New Jersey, United States.
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Breanna Micciolo, the boy’s mother, appeared in court to recount the details of the violent incidents that preceded the tragedy.
Corey He returned from his visits with his father with serious bruises on the body, leading Breanna to suspect possible child abuse.
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Despite reporting the 31-year-old man to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency and expressing fears that his son could be in danger, his warnings were not heeded.
Testimony of the mother of the deceased child
As the tape sped up, you watched Corey struggle to keep up until he finally fell backwards and rolled. At that moment, his father grabbed him by the shirt, lifted him up and forced him to get back on the machine, without slowing down.
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The mother reported that, upon returning from the gym, He immediately noticed bruises and scratches on his son’s body.so he filed another complaint with the authorities.
According to the prosecution, the minor had suffered abuse and mistreatment by his father for several months before dying from “blunt force trauma,” according to the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’.
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It was then that the boy confessed to his mother and the doctor that his father forced him to run because he thought he was overweight. Despite this, the courts rejected the mother’s request to obtain full custody of her son. The next day, Corey passed away.
According to the forensic pathologist’s report, the cause of death was “chronic child abuse homicide,” which included blunt force injuries to the abdomen and chest, a laceration to the heart, and cardiac and hepatic contusions with inflammation and sepsis.
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For his part, the defendant, whose charges were modified to murder in 2022, maintained that his son died from pneumonia, although there is no medical document from hospital staff to support this claim.
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