A judge added a charge to the list Wednesday against a North Miami man accused of beating his infant son into a coma but claimed the baby hit his head on a table. 

Yosi Mahlab, 30, was arrested after his 4-month-old son, Javon, was rushed to a hospital, unconscious, on Jan. 21. Doctors found the child had a skull fracture, subdural bleeding, a retinal hemorrhage and bleeding in the brain, police said. 

According to police, Mahlab admitted that he hit the baby in the face twice, causing the child to slip off his lap and hit his head on a night table.  Police said doctors found that the baby has no brain activity, and he is not expected to survive. 

Mahlab claimed he was disciplining the baby. 

"I didn’t beat my child. I smacked my child," Mahlab said in court Wednesday. 

"Please do not talk about the facts of your case, sir," an attorney said. "Anything you say can be used against you." 

Prosecutors told the judge that the baby has shown no signs of improvement since the incident, which police said happened inside Mahlab’s North Miami apartment. 

"He's being kept alive through life support machines," a prosecutor said Wednesday. "At this point, judge, the mother is not quite ready to say goodbye to her child." 

Doctors are sure that Javon is brain dead, which could lead to murder charges for Mahlab. 

"After the child stopped breathing, he did not call 911 for about 30 minutes. That delay in time, your honor, caused a lot of brain damage to this child," the prosecutor said. 

Initially, Mahlab was being held in jail on $257,000 bond on charges of aggravated child abuse and neglect, but the judge added an attempted first-degree murder charge Wednesday, and he is now being held without bond.