A teenager accused of killing Caboolture toddler Mason Lee is making another bid for freedom after he was thrown back in jail following a dramatic escape attempt and a raft of bail breaches.
Ryan Robert Barry Hodson, 17, is accused of leaving the toddler to die, allegedly telling one person who suggested calling a doctor to "f--- your mouth up, it's not our business, it's not our problem".
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The 21-month-old's mother Anne Maree Lee, and stepfather, William Andrew O'Sullivan are both charged with his manslaughter, along with Hodson.
The toddler's body was found was found covered in "horrific" injuries from head to toe at his stepfather's home in Caboolture South on June 11 last year.
The Caboolture teen was released on bail in August but hauled back before a magistrate on May 23, having breached his bail five times, mostly by hanging out with a witness, who he said was a long-term friend.
The court heard Hodson's solicitor had not yet seen that witness's name on thousands of pages of evidence when he advised his client contact was OK but Magistrate Terry Duroux issued a stern warning not to see him again.
"I know that idiot and he is an idiot and if you knock around with someone like that, you're going to find yourself in custody so quickly again that your feet will not hit the ground," he said, according to a court transcript.
The teenager, a secondary student at a special assistance school, pleaded guilty to a count of public nuisance but added he had since been on "lock down" 22 hours a day in prison for his own safety.
Hodson took a baseball bat to a park, along with two other men, to meet people he had personal issues with and an argument quickly became physical.
Police said he tried to use the bat but was stopped by a witness, who said he was in enough trouble already.
Hodson said he did not get involved physically.
On hearing his bail had been revoked, the New South Wales-born teen, who maintained he was "petrified" of prison, tried to escape Caboolture Magistrates Court's prison dock.
"I put my hands on top of the glass way above my head and was attempting to stand on a wooden panel around the dock," he said, in an affidavit filed along with his second Supreme Court bail bid.
"A watchhouse officer grabbed me around the waist and pulled me down onto the bench seat.
"The watchhouse officer was then positioned on top of me on the bench seat and during that process my arm was injured."
Addressing the Magistrates Court in May, Hodson's lawyer Michael Mason indicated his client intended to contest the manslaughter charge.
Hodson was allegedly captured on CCTV verbally abusing the boy on three occasions leading up to June 11, when Mason was found dead about 12.30am, four hours after Mr Hodson claimed to have left.
In an affidavit filed with the bail application, the 17-year-old argued he knew nothing about rearing children and was never Mason's carer.
"The child was never put in my charge while I was at the O'Sullivan's residence," he wrote, saying he was not alleged to have assaulted the child but to have failed to provide care for him.
The bail application is scheduled to be heard in the Brisbane Supreme Court on June 26.