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The crib in the photograph of the chaotic bedroom was empty, except for the half-empty baby bottle on the mattress and the Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal, face-down and pushed in the corner.

There was clutter and garbage on the floor. A soiled diaper sat on a shelf.

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Little Ryker Daponte-Michaud died there in a painful, horrifying way, just 18 months into his life, unable to take himself to hospital to treat his burns from a cup of scalding coffee.

The days before his death in May 2014 would have been excruciatingly painful.

He died there, the Crown says, even after people told his mother, Amanda Dumont, 30, and her partner Scott Bakker, 28, to take the toddler to the hospital to get him some help.

If they had, assistant Crown attorney Elizabeth Maguire told a Superior Court jury Monday, there was a 95 per cent chance he would have survived.

Why didn’t anyone take him for medical treatment?

Instead Dumont and Bakker, both of Strathroy, are on trial, charged together and pleading not guilty to criminal negligence causing death.