Crying out in pain and asking for her “momma,” a 76-year-old woman was found emaciated and lying in urine, vomit and feces in a room where the window was spray-painted black, a court has heard.

“She was filthy ... She was crying, ‘Momma, momma, I want my momma,’” said emotional paramedic Steve Byers.

He found Viola Simons, 76, of Orillia, so dirty he couldn’t even see her skin, court heard.

The woman’s daughter, Dianne Davy, 49, and her son-in-law, James Davy, 47, of Orillia, are on trial for failing to provide the necessities of life.

Paramedics got the call to attend the town house at 12 Lankin Blvd. in Orillia at around 3:40 a.m May 26, 2011. The woman’s daughter had called because her mother was vomiting.

As soon as paramedics entered the home, they were hit with the sharp ammonia smell of urine, court heard.

“It smelled like cat urine,” Byers testified. He said he and his partner made their way upstairs and found Simons, a “tiny lady,” lying naked on her bed in a filthy, dark room.

She was covered with a dark, brownish, “coffee-ground emesis,” that he said was vomit mixed with blood.

“It was all over her torso and all around her bed,” said Byers. “There was feces ... She was moaning in pain.” He said her stomach was distended like a basket ball, which was a sign she was suffering from gastric bleeding and her right leg was twice the size of her left leg.

“She was so emaciated, you could see all her ribs ... You could see her heart beating through her skin,” said Byers. Immediately he administered an intravenous to hydrate her.

Byers asked the woman’s daughter questions, and learned that Simons suffered from dementia, court heard.

“But I couldn’t get any other information ... The answers were very vague,” Byers said, adding he became suspicious and called police.

“When we suspect elder abuse, it’s our duty to the public to call police,” Byers said.

OPP Const. Kalle Eriksson said he was hit with the same sharp smell of urine when he entered the house and made his way up to her room.

“Her skin was black and filthy, you couldn’t see her skin, her armpits were black,” said Eriksson. “The window was spray-painted black so absolutely no light could get in.”

Jurors looked at a photograph of the gaunt, emaciated woman after hospital staff had cleaned her and gave her a teddy bear. Several other photographs displayed in court showed bruises on her legs, arms, thighs, forehead, and a large swollen red ulcer on her lower back.

The trial continues.

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