A 6-week-old infant found abandoned on the front lawn of a home following her mother's killing will not be returned to her family, a Family Court judge ruled in a closed hearing Wednesday afternoon.

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office did not disclose why Miciana Ciara Ramos, daughter of 17-year-old Felicia Mikels, will not be returned to her Rudderow Avenue home in Pennsauken.

Two men -- family friend Douglas Mandichak, 25, of Maple Shade and the baby's great-uncle, Christopher Mikels, 26 -- are accused of luring the infant's mother to a Pennsauken bowling alley Friday night and later to a desolate parking lot in a Pennsauken industrial park where she was bludgeoned to death with a wooden object, prosecutors said. Mandichak is charged with murder and Christopher Mikels is charged as an accomplice to murder, prosecutors said.

Christopher Mikels, owner of a private demolition and landscaping company in Pennsauken, has told police he might be the baby's father. Investigators are awaiting the results of paternity tests administered to both defendants. The results are expected to take several weeks.

Family Court Judge Louise Donaldson said Wednesday she wanted to bring the man listed on the baby's birth certificate, Ray Ramos, into the next custody hearing in March because he could have legal standing in the placement of Miciana. He is now in state prison, she said.

Prosecutors said both of the accused men provided details of the killing to investigators. After beating Felicia Mikels, the two men wrapped her in a canvas tarp and drove about five miles to Cinnaminson, where they dumped her into the icy Pennsauken Creek off North Fork Landing Road and Route 73, prosecutors said.

The infant was found about 7 a.m. Saturday by a driver passing by a home on Marlowe Street in Cherry Hill. The baby was bundled against below-freezing temperatures in a Winnie the Pooh car seat, which family members recognized from media reports and identified the baby.

Diving teams from the New Jersey State Police have combed the frigid creek for four days searching for Felicia Mikels' body. Ice, debris and freezing temperatures have delayed the search, which is expected to resume today.

Longtime neighbor Tina Boone, whose daughter grew up with Felicia Mikels, remembered the slain mother fondly Wednesday evening.

"Felicia was so excited about her baby," Boone said, wiping tears from her cheeks. "She felt it was a miracle from God. She was excited about trying to get her life on track."

Mikels, Boone said, came from a rough-and-tumble background and grew up with very little support. She also said Christopher Mikels, the teen mother's great-uncle, had not lived at the Rudderow Avenue home for at least three years.

"Felicia was doing the best she could do with what she was given," Boone said. "She loved her baby, and she would have been a good mom."

The two defendants are being held at the Camden County Jail -- Christopher Mikels on $750,000 bail and Mandichak on $1 million bail.

State Office of the Public Defender spokesman Tom Rosenthal said the men are expected to be assigned to a public defender.

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