A man accused of murdering his girlfriend's 15-month-old son admitted beating the child - but told a jury: 'I didn't enjoy it.'
Darren Newton videoed his attacks on little Charlie Hunt over a four-month period on his mobile phone.
He gave them titles including 'Crying, no toys in pen, ahhhh', 'Squeezing toe in cot', 'Two minutes of pain' and 'Shivering no water', taken when Charlie was naked in an empty bath.
Newton was asked about the 'Two minutes of pain' video where he slams Charlie's hand down on his high chair and twists his right ear twice as the baby screams and cries.
Dennis Watson, QC, prosecuting at Manchester Crown Court said: 'You are filming him as you inflict pain on him,' Mr Watson said.
'I accept that yes,' Newton replied.
'He tries to put his little hand up...what was going through your mind?'
'Again, no answer,' Newton said.
Mr Watson continued: 'Is it too difficult to admit you enjoyed doing what you were doing to him, which is why you did it again and again?'
'I did not enjoy doing it,' Newton replied.
Mr Watson added: 'A helpless baby in reality, wasn't he? He could not speak, could not tell anyone, could not complain, could he?'
'No,' Newton replied.
In the three-minute video entitled 'Happy Slap' Newton is seen hitting the sobbing child on his head 13 times.
Mr Watson asked Newton: 'What were you trying to do?'
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Accused: Darren Newton denies murder but admits 12 charges of child cruelty
'I don't know, I honestly don't know,' he replied.
'Thirteen times, that vulnerable area. Why choose his head, 13 times?'
'I don't know,' said 32-year-old Newton who pleaded guilty to 12 counts of cruelty - each videoed - but denies murder.
Newton, from Earby, Lancashire, said he took no 'enjoyment' from secretly filming as he abused the child, the young son of his lover Laura Chapman.
It is alleged Newton hid his 'dark and wicked side' to film the graphic clips last summer while Charlie's mother was out of the house and the factory worker was left alone with the baby.
Charlie collapsed and died on November 19 last year from head injuries in what the prosecution claim was a final, fatal attack, not caught on camera, where Newton is alleged to have hit the child 'a lot harder' than in the clips found by police on his phone after his arrest.
A post-mortem examination found the child had severe head injuries, including swelling and bleeding to his brain and damage and bleeding to his eyes.
But Newton, told the jury he 'never touched' the child on the day Charlie died.
Mr Watson began his cross-examination of the defendant by asking: 'Mr Newton, are you sorry?' Newton replied: 'Sorry for what?'
'Is that your question of me? What for? The video you saw this morning?'
Newton replied that he was sorry for the video.
Mr Watson asked: 'Did you take pleasure from the fact that you were being cruel to him?' 'No.'
'You gave them titles so you could look at them?' Mr Watson continued.
'I did not look at them over and over again.'
The child had been seen by a GP and spent a night in hospital three weeks before his death suffering 'fits' which doctors could not explain as they were not aware of any cruelty.
'That had been going on from the 6th of June, hadn't it?' Mr Watson said. 'You never asked yourself, 'I wonder whether that's got anything to do with me?''
'No,' replied Newton.
The case continues.
This guy is sick. It's hard to see a child go through so much pain and for what? The guy did not even care about what he was doing to that child! I hope he gets life and never gets out...

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