A jury has been picked in London to determine the fate of a Strathroy couple accused in their toddler son's death.
Amanda Dumont, 30, and Scott Bakker, 26, are jointly charged with criminal negligence causing death in connection with Ryker Daponte-Michaud's death in May 2014 at a Spruce Street home in Strathroy.
They both face charges of failing to provide the necessaries of life.
The jury is comprised of seven women and five men.
The pair have pleaded not guilty.
On Monday, the London jury heard how 18-month-old Ryker Daponte-Michaud was severely burned with boiling hot coffee at his home on Penny Lane in Strathroy during the May long weekend of 2014.
In her opening address crown attorney Elizabeth Maguire said the boy's mother Amanda Dumont and her husband Scott Bakker didn't seek medical attention for the burns to his legs, waist and back.
"He (Ryker) wasn't taken to the doctor, the hospital, he wasn't taken to the walk-in clinic. Why didn't anyone take him for medical treatment?"
Maguire said the court will hear the couple would go out shopping for pizza and dog food and they lied to others about getting medication.
She went on to say that evidence will show that the boy's injuries were so painful they would have required morphine and that if he had received the medical help he needed, Ryker had a 95 percent chance of survival.
The court heard just days after the incident, Ryker was found dead in his crib.
The court heard that Dumont has three other young children all girls.
The jury is comprised of seven women and five men.
The pair have pleaded not guilty.
The trial is scheduled to last four weeks.
