ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The father of a missing 6-month-old baby who was found dead Tuesday has been charged with murder, court records show.

Nnakai Pratt’s father, Antonio Pearce, reported the infant missing at 100 Valley Hill Road in Riverdale, the Aspiring to Antastafae at Riverdale apartment complex, on Sunday.

Pearce claimed he was robbed at gunpoint and that the robbers took Pratt and escaped “in an unknown direction.”

Along with unrelated drug charges, court records show Pearce is now facing the following charges in his son’s death:

Malice murder

Making false statements

Concealing a death

Tampering with evidence

Aggravated assault

Aggravated battery

Child cruelty

Falsely reporting a crime

On Wednesday, a judge denied bond for Pearce.

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