Georgia Parents Denied Bail After Police Find Body of Missing Infant Buried Behind Apartment Complex

Police in suburban Atlanta say they discovered the body of a six-month-old boy wrapped in a trash bag — his skull fractured from blunt force trauma — days after his father falsely claimed the child had been kidnapped during an armed robbery.

According to The Associated Press, both parents of the infant, identified as 👤Nnakai Pratt, were denied bail Friday and remain in jail on multiple charges related to his death.

Authorities say Antonio Pearce, the boy’s father, told Clayton County police on Sunday that two armed men had stolen $6,500 in cash, three pounds of marijuana, and abducted Nnakai while he sat strapped in his car seat. The alleged kidnapping, Pearce claimed, happened inside an apartment he described as a stash house in Riverdale, about 11 miles south of Atlanta.

But by Tuesday night, officers discovered Nnakai’s body in a trash bag behind a nearby home — just beyond the fence line of the same 🏢Apartment complex.

Clayton County Detective Chieyenne Reynolds said investigators immediately doubted Pearce’s story.

“He was caught in a lot of lies throughout his interview process,” Reynolds said, noting that witness statements and data pulled from Pearce’s phone helped lead police to the child’s body.