Chilling babycam footage was released to jurors on Tuesday, as part of an ongoing murder trial, showing a six-year-old boy crying "nobody loves me."
The footage is from just a few hours before the young boy lost his life, on June 17, last year.
Thomas Hughes, 29, and Emma Tustin, 32, are accused of killing Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at their home in Solihull, West Mids.
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Hughes and Tustin deny murdering Arthur and multiple counts of child cruelty at Coventry Crown Court.
On Tuesday, jurors were told how the youngster suffered a lethal final brain injury, after being subjected to a campaign of cruelty, which amounted to the "medical definition of child torture."
It is alleged that Arthur was killed as a result of having his head banged "repeatedly against a hard surface" at the hands of Tustin.
Arthur was taken to Birmingham's Children's Hospital and his life support was turned off in intensive care at 1am on June 17.
The jury were played CCTV footage of the young boy struggling to carry a duvet, as he cried out for love and for food. He was so weak and frail he could barely lift the covers, after being forced to sleep in the living room for the fifth day in a row.
Audio was also played of him crying "no-one loves me" and "no-one is going to feed me." He says that no one is going to feed him a total of seven times in 44 seconds.
Arthur's uncle Blake Hughes told the court last month the youngster broke out in tears after claiming that Tustin had pushed him against a wall and branded him "ugly".
He said: "He said his mum didn’t love him and had abandoned him. He then started to break out crying. He went on to say nobody loved him."
The court also heard how Tustin would send Thomas Hughes voice notes of the schoolboy crying whenever he left the house, and he would reply with chilling messages such as "dig Arthur's grave", "I'll take his neck off," and the "kid is getting it when I get back".
Hughes also admitted to using "pressure points on Arthur's neck to discipline him" and said he would use these for about 10 to 15 seconds at a time.
Prosecutor Jonas Hankin said the pair routinely physically and verbally abused Arthur to cause him "significant harm and suffering."
He told the court previously: "Neither can begin to justify what they did to him. Arthur was a defenceless child entirely dependent on them for his well-being.
"Arthur became a target for derision, abuse and systematic cruelty designed to cause him significant physical and mental suffering for reasons which are unfathomable."
The trial continues.
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