A judge has denied bond for a Chesapeake man accused of killing his five-year-old daughter.

Joshua Sawyer is charged with second-degree murder. The child's stepmother, Brandy Sawyer, is charged with first-degree murder. Her bond hearing is Friday.

Authorities say Carly Sawyer was confined in a box, tied up, hit with a belt and denied food. Paramedics summoned to the home June 10 found Carly with cuts, bruises and burns on her body and ligature marks on her wrists. She died the next day.

A defense attorney told a judge Wednesday that 24-year-old Joshua Sawyer should be released on bond because he was a Marine veteran with no criminal record. But a prosecutor opposed Sawyer's release, citing "systematic abuse" of the child.