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Alexandru Radita was so emaciated when he died, the first paramedic to find his body wasn’t sure what she was looking at, she testified Tuesday.

Deborah Baumback said Radita was so thin he was almost unrecognizable as a human being.

“I actually remember walking in the room thinking, ‘what the hell is that?’ ” Baumback said.

“The patient was so emaciated to the point he was mummified.”

Charged with first-degree murder in the 15-year-old’s May 7, 2013, death are his parents, Emil, 59, and Rodica Radita, 53.

Baumback said the boy was just skin and bones when paramedics arrived at the Raditas’ Citadel residence in northwest Calgary.

“The eyeballs were sunken in, every rib you could see,” she said.

“He was so, so extraordinarily thin.”

And Baumback said she wasn’t given much help by a man in the room who identified himself as the boy’s father.