Wednesday, November 09, 2005 | 9:36 AM
ABCNews
Nov. 9, 2005 -- Moe the chimp was like a *** to the Davis ******. St. James and LaDonna Davis say they rescued the chimp from Africa and then raised him in their California home - sometimes even eating and ******** with him.
In 1998, Moe attacked a West Covina, Calif., police officer and a neighbor. Authorities removed the chimp and took him to the ****** Haven Ranch near Bakersfield.
When the couple visited Moe last March, two chimps in nearby cages attacked St. James Davis and nearly ****ed him.
"I was so tired, but I had to keep fighting," Davis said. "This one &was just pounding the daylights out of me. I heard Donna saying 'please don't die on me' & I just couldn't answer her."
He said the ****** went on for 10 or 15 minutes and he could "feel it blow by blow." Chimps are three times stronger than a man.
During the ******, LaDonna Davis looked on - she had been knocked to the ground by one of the chimps who bit her thumb off. She looked up to see her husband - who had intervened to save her - covered in *****.
"The big male took off to my husband's face, his head area, while he's on the ground. And the smaller one & went to his foot area," she told ABC News. They were "tearing away at him. And I'm begging somebody to do something here."
A ranch hand eventually shot the two chimps to death. Prosecutors did not seek criminal charges against the operator of the reserve because the ******* apparently escaped on their own.
St. James Davis spent months in intensive care and underwent more than two dozen operations - he estimates he has 20 more surgeries left. He was put into an induced **** to help him heal.
Davis recently returned home. He's severely disfigured - his nose chewed off and his genitals and limbs severely mauled - but his love for Moe, who served as the ring bearer in his and LaDonna's wedding, remains strong.
Nevertheless, he is haunted by the memory of the ******.
"I really don't want to go back to the scene," Davis said. "I would like to have him put elsewhere. I would like to be back together again. I don't even know if he knows I am alive."