AUGUSTA – A Wilton man charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 17-month-old son in November was jailed again Friday because the property posted to get him released Monday is being held as collateral by a bank, officials said.

David Cook, 25, was returned to state custody immediately after a hearing Friday in Kennebec County Superior Court.

State police discovered that the property at 113 Walker Hill Road in Wilton used for Cook’s $100,000 surety bail is tied up by Franklin Savings Bank, Trooper Jeff Love said in an affidavit. The property is owned by Jaimie Lee (Tilton) Badeau, 24, who posted it and owes the bank $187,817, he wrote. Bank records indicate the property is held as collateral for the loan, Love wrote.

Badeau was arrested Thursday on a charge of aggravated forgery for posting the property for bail. She was released on $500 cash bail Thursday from Franklin County jail in Farmington and is scheduled to appear Feb. 20 in Franklin County Superior Court in Farmington.

Badeau is the girlfriend of Cook’s brother, according to Assistant Attorney General Andrew Benson who handled the bail hearing Friday.

State police arrested Cook on Dec. 26 on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Matteo Hanson on Nov. 29 at the Route 2 apartment of Hanson’s mother, Brandy S. Swett, then of Wilton and now of East Dixfield. Cook told police the boy fell down a flight of stairs, possibly pushed by his 3-year-old sister, while Cook was caring for them. But a state medical examiner who performed an autopsy on Hanson said the boy died from extensive blunt force trauma to the torso, consistent with being severely kicked or punched.

Cook had been held at the Farmington jail on $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 worth of property.

On Friday, Justice Michaela Murphy declined the defense’s request to lower the amount of bail.

“It is the appropriate amount given the facts I’ve heard,” she said during the hearing. She said she was concerned about what Cook may have known about Badeau’s alleged fraud. If Cook was aware of any effort to deceive state officials, it would be a “grotesque affront” to the integrity of the court, she said.

Maine Deputy Attorney General Bill Stokes said Cook’s bail should remain the same, and he should be taken back into custody until he meets the bail set.

“It is reasonable bail and he has not met it,” Stokes said prior to Cook’s bail hearing.

“We oppose any reduction in bail,” he said.