That discussion about whether Gramps said “unattended” or ‘unintended’ was a huge tell to me. Many people die alone in hospitals…no one calls the police to ‘attend’ the corpse or console the bereaved.
My guess is that they were well aware of their son’s pattern and MODE of cruelty to the child, perhaps disguised as rough play…hitting him in the face with balls, ‘accidentally kicking him, the treadmill, etc. I’m guessing that the hurt caused to Corey by these malicious, spiteful acts were repeatedly ‘excused’ by their son…as ‘unintended.’
CG, in my opinion, hated this child and his Mother, and the intrusion into his life. He found a way to take out his stealth aggression on the little boy…the ‘athletic father’ making a man out of his child, ‘playing’ with him…imflicting pain that way…repeatedly excused as UNINTENDED. And of course, the once fatherless child would try to please him.
Did the parents and CG argue about this, see through the ‘play’ to the cruelty…and that caused CG to move out where he could do as he wished with the child? it is also odd to me that CG left home where he had all that free help and freedom for himself from childcare. Dad really tried to make that a PR moment, but it sounded suspicious to me.
I also wonder if Grandma wasn’t told more detail in an earlier phone call about how and when Corey collapsed. Maybe that word was already used between their son and Grandma in one of the initial calls that day. Maybe the word was already in their mind.
My guess is that Grandpa called the police because he was terrified that an enraged M family, already wise to the abuse, would show up at the hospital to confront CG over…in HIS words…an ‘unintended’ death. They weren’t rushing to the hospital for Corey…he was already dead. They weren’t asking the police to console their son. Who does that?
Knowing that the M family had uncovered the alleged abuse, they wanted their son to have police protection. Big tell, all in my opinion, of course.
