Mom Gets Justice for Son: Ex Convicted in "Treadmill Abuse Trial"
And: Update in Angelina Jolie's Case
A mother has gotten well-deserved justice in a New Jersey Custody Crisis case we began reporting on two years ago. Breanna’s ex, Christopher Gregor, was found guilty on Friday of aggravated manslaughter in the death of 6-year-Corey.
In a widely-publicized trial, including live coverage on Court TV, the public and a jury heard how Little Corey’s father had abused him over the course of years. Everyone came to know how the injuries he inflicted on Corey on his final court-ordered visit caused the boy’s death.
MSM [mainstream media] refers to this case as the “treadmill abuse trial” because a video went viral showing the father abusing the boy during a forced workout at a gym. When it was played at the trial, many in the courtroom were moved to tears.
One-minute clip of the abusive incident:
As usual, though, MSM has downplayed or outright dismissed the most important aspect of this heartbreaking case: It was the Family Court judge who essentially caused Corey’s death by denying his mother, Breanna [Bre] pleas for protection, right up until the day before he was murdered.
The MSM focus has been on the usual scapegoat: CPS. We’ll discuss that and more in the takeaways, but first—Bre’s story.
BRE’S STORY
Bre gave birth to Corey when she was 17 and Christopher was 22. She raised Corey on her own for the first five years until Christopher asked for and got joint custody. It is unclear why he wanted custody—perhaps it was one of the two most common reasons: to get out of child support or torment the ex.
The abuse began immediately. Corey returned home from one of the first visits with Christopher with a "busted lip" and "swollen face". Bre took pictures of his injuries and made the first of many complaints to CPS, and later, Family Court.
In one of the complaints filed the next year in 2020, Bre reported that Corey was coming home with bruises, scrapes, black eyes, and bite marks. She complained about how CPS would only interview Corey at his father’s, as he is afraid of him. This is a common cover-up tactic used by CPS and Family Court investigators. Everyone knows a child is unlikely to report abuse while the perpetrator is present.
By 2021, Bre had reported abuse over 100 times to various authorities.
DAYS LEADING UP TO COREY’S MURDER
MARCH 20 TO APRIL 2, 2021
Sunday, March 20th: The treadmill abuse day. Bre is two hours late dropping off Corey at his father’s. Father gets revenge via the abusive treadmill workout. He increases the the speed and incline causing Corey to fall off six times.
Monday, March 22nd: Corey’s teacher notices his injuries and sends Corey to the nurse.
Tuesday, March 23rd: Bre discovers the treadmill abuse and takes him to the pediatrician. Corey tells the doctor that some of the bruising was from falling off the treadmill. He tearfully begs the doctor to not tell his father he told him.
Corey became tearful when he asked me to promise not to tell anyone what he said.
Bre leaves voicemails with CPS reporting the new abuse. They do not return her calls.
Friday, March 26th: CPS goes to the father’s house and photographs the bruises on Corey. The father now realizes he is in big trouble.
Monday, March 29th and Tuesday, March 30th: Teacher again reports to CPS. Bre calls CPS again. Still no action taken.
Wednesday, March 31st: Bre goes to court on an emergency basis with the new evidence requesting temporary sole custody. She fears Christopher will punish Corey for telling and so the forensic investigation can be done without Christopher being able to interfere. But despite it being an emergency, Judge Patrick Bradshaw does not rule while Bre is in front of him. The coward waits until the next day.
Thursday, April 1st: Judge Bradshaw issues his written decision denying Bre’s motion, on the grounds Corey is not in imminent danger.
The Court does not find that ... Corey is in danger of imminent and irreparable harm. Therefore, the Court does not find a temporary modification of the parties' custody and parenting time arrangement appropriate at this time.
Bre brings Corey back to the hospital to continue the abuse evaluation, but Christopher is able to prevent that because he still has custody—per Bradshaw’s denial of Bre’s motion.
Friday, April 2nd: Bre drops Corey off at his father’s at about 9 am. At 10am Christopher makes a complaint with CPS that Bre is coaching Corey to say he was abusing him [read: alienating] and keeping him longer than the court order allows.
[NOTE: Christopher is setting the stage to get sole custody in Family Court by telling CPS and police that Bre is making false allegations and alienating Corey from him. See the takeaway about this.]
Christopher then proceeds to beat Corey to his head and body to punish him for telling about the abuse and get revenge on Bre for reporting it. But the beatings were, most importantly, to torture Corey into silence—to keep him from ever again daring to tell about his abuse.
But this time Christopher went too far and at about 3:30pm he brings Corey, who is nauseous and having a hard time breathing, to the hospital. He calls Bre to tell her Corey is at the hospital and leaves. Christopher has seizures caused by the injuries and, despite strenuous efforts by the staff to save him, Corey dies less than two hours later.
The cause of death was blunt force trauma. The beatings lacerated Corey’s heart and liver.
THE PROSECUTION
Shades of OJ—After dropping Christopher off at the hospital, he fled the state—24 hours straight speeding away from the scene of the crime. He was eventually caught and pulled over. He gave the police the male sob story placing blame on woman. They let him go.
It was not until a year later, in March 2022, that Christopher was charged with murder for the beating that led to Corey’s death and child endangerment for the treadmill abuse.
The prosecution put on a strong case and the defense was weak. A big part of the defense was shifting the blame to Bre. Part of that was saying that she was coaching Corey to report abuse and that her reports of abuse were a “ruse” to get sole custody. Sound familiar? But this narrative doesn’t work as well in front of a jury as in Family Court in front of a judge.
Christopher and his mother were both expected to testify until an audio recording of him coaching his mother from his jail cell was gotten ahead of her testimony. So Christopher is actually the one coaching—both his mother and Corey. It is often the case that men are projecting when they accuse the mother of coaching/alienating—it is more often the fathers who are guilty of that.
The verdict came on Friday after the four week trial. The jury found Christopher guilty of the lesser (than murder) offense of aggravated manslaughter. They found that Christopher had not meant to kill Corey. He was also found guilty of child endangerment for the treadmill abuse.
Christopher faces up to 40 years in prison; his sentencing will be August 11th. Updates will be posted.
TAKEAWAYS
Lots of takeaways from this heartbreaking case…
People may be wondering why Judge Bradshaw would deny a mere, eminently justified temporary protective order so an investigation of abuse could proceed without the alleged perp father being able to interfere.
Well, that is exactly why he denied it.
The best way to cover up abuse is to keep the father’s visits unsupervised—better yet give him sole custody. This enables him to continue to intimidate, alienate, and torture the child into silence about his abuse.
Christopher was given the clear message that he could continue to abuse Corey for years. Bre commented about this:
The more he was enabled [by the judge] the worse the abuse got.
Family Court serves as a permission structure for men to continue to control and abuse children—and their ex through the children. Judge Bradshaw was doing his job.
After Christopher was caught on camera for the treadmill abuse, he dialed into the Family Court playbook. He began reporting to authorities that Bre was falsely reporting abuse by him to pave the way for him getting sole custody.
A pillar of fathers’ rights activism is that mothers use the “silver bullet”: they falsely accuse the father of abuse and—presto!—the judge gives them sole custody. But, in reality, in Family Court practice, mothers rarely get sole custody after reporting abuse. In fact, they more often lose custody, and this serves to spread terror preventing mothers from reporting abuse by the father.
This “silver bullet” narrative is yet another perp projection. The real silver bullet is men claiming their ex is coaching and alienating the kids and actually getting sole custody. If Christopher’s abuse that day had not resulted in Corey’s death, his accusations that Bre was making false allegations and alienating Corey would most likely have been credited and he would have been given sole custody. That is the Family Court playbook.
In our last column—Another Child Murdered by a Vengeful Ex after Judge Orders Joint Custody—we discussed how a prevailing narrative in Family Court is that women are vindictive after divorce, but it is actually usually men. Christopher was angry at Bre and took out his vengeance on Corey via severe physical abuse. It is yet another case of a judge being able to ignore the fact that the father is acting vengefully—aided by the false narrative of women being the vengeful ones.
Lastly [I promise], it’s important to point out how MSM’s blaming of CPS and excusing of the judge bolsters the OBN’s agenda of obscuring what is really going on. The “CPS made me do it” excuse Judge Bradshaw gave is repeated ad nauseum by the press. [Note: The term “CPS” is being used for social services/government agencies charged with child abuse prevention.]
What MSM should be reporting is that Judge Bradshaw had all the evidence he needed to issue a temporary order in front of him. Regardless of what CPS found, Bradshaw should have made the temporary custody order to Bre so a proper forensic investigation could be conducted. And the fact that he did not is what caused Corey’s death.
So, what’s really going on?
First, CPS should never be involved in custody cases. Their purpose is for placing children who are being abused or neglected by both parents in foster care, i.e. dependency cases heard in dependency court. In custody cases, there is at least one non-abusive parent and if abuse is reported, it must be investigated by law enforcement, not CPS. Social workers do not have the expertise or power necessary to investigate crimes.
The reason CPS is being used in contested custody cases is specifically so Family Court judges have another abettor and scapegoat in the agenda to empower the father. CPS is being used just like the various court appointees—evaluators, children’s attorneys, GAL’s, therapists, visitation supervisors, et. al.—to spin the case. Their role in the OBN [Old Boy Network] scheme is to unsubstantiate/unfound reports of abuse by otherwise respectable [read: white, middle-to-upper-class or rich-minority] men. Judges then use their spun-to-the-father reports to justify giving custody to fathers.
Exactly as happened in Bre’s case.
Further proof of the agenda is that even when a CPS worker with a moral compass refuses to get with the program and actually substantiates the father’s abuse, the judge usually ignores it. So either way, Mom and Child lose and Abusive Father wins.
MSM should be highlighting the fact that it was Judge Bradshaw’s ruling—and his alone—that led to Corey’s death. If he would have issued the temporary protective order, Corey would still be alive.
But it’s not surprising they don’t/won’t—because they are also heavily influenced/controlled by the OBN. They never tell the truth about Custody Crisis cases: that judges are deliberately giving custody to abusive and self-serving fathers. With true investigative journalism they would get the truth out—that there are tens of thousands of women around the world losing custody to abusive and self-serving men because that is what Family Court does.
MSM continues to only interview activists and organizations that help obscure the truth of Custody Crisis cases. That is another problem we go into more depth on in a previous column.
Until and unless women join together and fight the real reason for the Custody Crisis, it will continue unabated.
Please consider joining The Women’s Coalition and subscribing to our Substack—to help get the truth out and end the Crisis. If you’d like to engage in activism, please consider joining us at Sisters in Solidarity. Our next forum will be on June 15th.
IN OTHER NEWS
Angelina’s Daughter Drops Pitt’s Name
There’s a a new development in another case we’ve covered since 2016—perhaps the most famous mother to be victimized by Family Court.
Angelina Jolie’s daughter, Shiloh, turned 18 on Monday and the very same day she filed for a name change. She’s dropping Pitt as her last name and keeping Jolie.
This provides important validation for Angelina, who’s fought hard to protect her children with little success.
We wrote An Open Letter to Angelina Jolie shortly after she filed for divorce in 2016 making clear her petition for primary custody was best for her children. She was also warned about the systemic discrimination she would face in Family Court.
Angelina was not able to keep primary custody or get supervised visits for her children, but she was one of the lucky moms who did not lose custody.
Unfortunately Angelina was misled into thinking that yet another child safety law would make a difference and got on board with the Protective/Safe Parents/DV campaign to add one of them to VAWA in 2022. That counterproductive “reform” is covered in our column: Angelina's VAWA Speech Misses the Mark: Sexism Is the Problem, Not DV or Child Safety Laws.
Of course, this “reform” has made no difference and will not because lack of child safety laws is not the problem. It just diverts from fighting the true cause of the Crisis: judicial “discretion” to ignore abuse and falsely find mothers to be lying or mentally ill.
CHAPTER 18 IS OUT!
“The Company One’s Mind Keeps” is Chapter 18 of Mother-Fucking: The Saga of One Fucked Mother.
In this chapter, Legion is determined to enjoy a wonderful summer with her kids despite Herry being gone. She continues to naïvely believe Herry is actively working on reforming his sexual addiction and misogynistic faults and that this is helped along by his mind keeping better company than in the past. Legion remembers one night while they were still dating, he had brought her to a strip club. She was sickened and fled out the door. It is only now that she begins to realize all Herry’s shallow, self-serving relationships and sexually addictive behaviors are “sand upon bedrock”.
In the last chapter, Legion muses how psychological theories may help explain Herry’s lazy, greedy, addictive, narcissistic behavior, but should not excuse it. She fears her sons have been poisoned by him modeling this entitled conduct just as he had been by his own autocratic father. She is irked at how husbands and fathers escape accountability for their selfish, neglectful, and abusive behavior, especially in Family Court where similarly empowered judges give them custody despite their terrible parenting history.
Dr. Blue’s novel is based on her own experience of the Custody Crisis. It uniquely conveys how Family Court judges are “mother-fucking” women—a form of systemic violence directed at ex-wives—as protagonist Legion is systematically and methodically deprived of her children and money and reduced to “one fucked mother”.
Chapters are stand-alone interesting so you can begin reading anywhere. A Cast of Characters follows to help readers at any point. All published chapters are included in the Section: “Saga of One F**ked Mother” accessible on the top bar of the home page: Women’s Coalition News & Views. Sequential chapters are published every Wednesday and subscribers will find them in their inboxes, so make sure to subscribe if you haven’t yet!
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Family court judges endanger children. The best interests of the child are ignored in family court. Family court judges give men child custody when they request it. Patriarchy dominates family court. Children are considered male property. Family court judges enable abusive fathers. Women and children are not protected. Many mothers and children die when family court judges rule. Loved ones will carry that pain for the rest of their lives. Breanna will never be the same. She will forever grieve Corey. Children need protection. Family court judges abuse their power. They face no consequences. Women must continue to fight for a new system. Family court judges must no longer have the power to endanger children. Family court must end.
Should not the Judge be charged as an accomplice to this murder. He should bear the responsibility for not preventing something he knew was going on. GUILTY! Throw the book at him!