The Queensland dad charged over the death of his seven-month-old baby boy who drowned in a lake at a popular camping spot has been identified.
Jaye Lee Walton, 42, didn’t appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Wednesday when his matter was heard for the first time.
His lawyer Mark Butler indicated that his client would make a bail application when the matter returns to court on Thursday.
Walton will remain in custody for a second night.
He was charged with manslaughter on Tuesday, three days after a baby boy was pulled from the water at a campsite at Chatsworth, near Gympie, on Saturday morning.
Multiple witnesses, including the mother, performed CPR on the baby before he was rushed to Gympie Hospital, where he died later that night.
Queensland Police has released footage of Walton’s arrest in the Ipswich suburb of Bundamba.
A makeshift memorial dedicated to ‘Joey’ has since been set up at the Chatsworth campsite 213km away.
‘RIP little one’ a large banner read.
Acting Police Commissioner Shane Chelepy described the baby’s death was ‘absolutely tragic’.
‘My heart really does go out to everyone involved in that, including the emergency workers and the police that had to attend that job,’ he told ABC Radio.
