Ga. parents charged after missing baby found dead in dumpster

ATLANTA, Ga. - Both parents of a 6-month-old baby found dead Tuesday are now facing charges in the case.

Necolette Pratt, the mother of Nnakai Pratt, was booked into the Clayton County Jail on Wednesday afternoon.

She’s facing charges of party to a crime, making false statements and obstruction of law enforcement officers, according to an arrest warrant.

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.”

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On Wednesday, a judge denied bond for Pearce.

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

“You’re also charged with false statements in that you did provide contradictory statements in the investigation of a missing child, and when witness accounts verified your contradictory statements, as you admitted to concealing and falsifying material facts,” Judge Keisha Wright Hill said during Pearce’s bond hearing at the time.

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Pearce was taken into custody Sunday on unrelated charges, police said. Police have previously said he is considered a suspect in Pratt’s disappearance.

According to Necolette’s arrest warrant, she told officers that Pearce had previously shaken the baby.

Pearce’s arrest warrant specifically mentions Necolette, noting that when detectives interviewed her, she “showed an unusual lack of emotion.”

“Necolette would rock and moan, but at no time did she cry any tears for her missing child,” the warrant states.

Pearce reported Nnakai missing on Sunday, but police said his story and the mother’s account didn’t match up. During his first court hearing, Judge Keisha Wright Hill outlined the charges against Pearce.