Killer dad who left two-year-old Baden Bond alone to die on a bench by a river because he was ‘tired of caring for him’ loses his appeal against 12-year jail sentence
- Shane Arthur Simpson left his son to die in 2007 as ‘everything got too much’
- The Queensland ice addict failed to appeal his sentence in court on Friday
- He argued his sentence should be lighter because his son’s death wasn’t violent
- Baby Baden was born with meth in his system, and dad was ‘fried’ from drugs
A vile father who left his toddler son to die by a river after ‘everything just got too much’ has lost an appeal against his 12-year jail sentence.
Shane Arthur Simpson, from Queensland, has failed to appeal his sentence for the manslaughter of two-year-old Baden Bond, who was deserted on a park bench at dusk 50 metres from the Logan River in May 2007.
The Court of Appeal in Brisbane on Friday dismissed Simpson’s argument the sentence should have been lighter because Baden’s death neither involved violence nor prolonged neglect.
Shane Arthur Simpson previously told the court he abandoned the child at the boat ramp near the Logan River because he was ‘tired of caring for him’
Simpson pleaded guilty in March to the manslaughter of his son.
Baden Bond’s body has never been found and no one knows what happened to him after he was abandoned on the banks of the Logan River.
Simpson, who is a long-term drug addict, previously told the court he abandoned the child at the boat ramp near the Logan River because he was ‘tired of caring for him’.
In his final moments with the child, Simpson said he sat with his son on a park bench for 15-30 minutes and said sorry.
Baden Bond’s body has never been found and no one knows what happened to him after he was abandoned on the banks of the Logan River.
Then, without turning back once, he drove away.
Baden’s mother Dina Colleen Bond pleaded guilty to helping cover up the death.
During sentencing earlier this year, Justice Peter Applegarth said there was no suggestion Simpson was high at the time, and added the offending wasn’t a ‘spur of the moment’ decision.
The court heard how Simpson and Bond called their son ‘the devil’s child’, and would leave him in a locked bedroom with windows that were painted black.
His nappies were reportedly often left unchanged and visitors were discouraged from going into his room.
His mother and father are believed to have blamed the infant for their troubles with their other children, all of whom returned to the family home a year later.
Simpson had called him a ‘little c***’, a ‘dog f*****’ and was ‘nothing but trouble’.
In 2016, when Simpson finally admitted to police he’d abandoned the toddler, he said Baden was difficult and ‘everything just got too much’.
He said he was ‘fried off my head’ at the time from taking ice.
In a devastating twist, the parents did not face any criminal charges for 10 years.
Baby Baden was last seen in March 2007, but not reported missing until June 2015.
His parents were charged in March 2017 after an extensive investigation found no record of Baden attending any school or medical centre in the past 10 years.
The parents had continually lied about baby Baden’s whereabouts, claiming he was either in foster care, or staying with his relatives.
In the middle of the night, about three months after Simpson left Baden on the bench, the couple moved out of their home on Wagawn Street in Woodridge, south of Brisbane.
They told nobody, and did not contact their family again for a year.
Simpson and the baby’s mother Colleen Bond called their son ‘the devil’s child’, and would leave him in a locked bedroom with windows that were painted black