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The videos were played again at his parents’ child-torture trial Friday, during the cross-examination of the Mountie.

The naked, emaciated boy is seen sobbing as he promises his father he’ll stop lying. The starving boy looks frightened beyond description.

He says he’ll be a good boy and stop picking the padlock on his shackles.

“I want my family back,” the boy begs in the Jan. 3, 2013 video.

“I’ve had enough of my punishment. I’ll stop lying … I’ll show you I can change. I’m going to keep my locks as tight as possible on my feet.”

The father is heard demanding the boy to confess to his “sins,” including the time he kissed a girl’s hand as they sat up in a tree.

You haven’t repented yet! You will weep blood for what you have done. I don’t see you on your knees yet

“You haven’t repented yet! You will weep blood for what you have done. I don’t see you on your knees yet,” the father tells his son, who was handcuffed behind his back and chained up in the unfinished basement.

“If you’re in this position, it’s because someone has had enough of you,” the father says during the interrogation in English and French. “You will pray that Jesus will take you back after all of this and that your parents will take you back.”

In one of the videos, the father threatens to distribute the video “to the people you most care for.”

The boy’s father and stepmother, both free on bail, are each charged with aggravated assault, forcible confinement, and failure to provide necessities of life. They are prohibited from communicating while on bail. They still wear their wedding rings.