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Johnson said he wanted the tests done after the disturbing discovery at the baby’s autopsy. The results of those tests will be discussed later in the trial.

Just as the initial shock of the autopsy photos had waned from the morning session, the jury spent part of the afternoon looking at crime scene photos that showed Baby Ryker’s lifeless body on the floor of the kitchen in the cluttered home.

The injuries were discussed by Strathroy-Caradoc police Const. David Vieira, who was the first identification officer on the scene and took the photos on the day the toddler died.

Vieira took more than 100 photos at the house and recalled an odour coming from the main floor bedroom where Ryker had slept.

The smell was “similar to the odour of a cat litter box, but I don’t recall seeing it,” he said.

“I didn’t know what the smell was. But it was obvious.”

What started to emerge on the the second day of the trial is where the defences are heading.

Bakker’s lawyers spent much of their cross-examinations of police officers trying to establish that perhaps Bakker wasn’t even living at the townhouse on Penny Lane. The lawyers also tried to establish that he was shaken by Ryker’s death.

While cross-examining Vieira, Bakker’s co-defence lawyer Greg Leslie pointed out that the police officer fingerprinted Bakker after his arrest on May 24, 2014. Vieira agreed with Leslie that Bakker “was emotional and he started crying.”

But Dumont’s defence lawyer Ken Marley went to Vieira’s notes that documented Bakker yelling at Dumont from his cell to hers in the Strathroy-Caradoc police headquarters just before he was fingerprinted.

Vieira agreed that Bakker cried and whispered to him during the procedure. Once finished and after he put Bakker back in his cell, Vieira noted, “I don’t know if Scott was playing me or not.”

Before the jury was dismissed for the day, Maguire had Dumont’s Lambton College transcripts put into evidence. She graduated in 2012 with a personal support worker diploma and was on the dean’s list.

And she achieved an A- in palliative care.

The trial continues on Wednesday.