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Baby Charli's caregiver arrested, charged with aggravated manslaughter of child

Matthew Hamrysky (Clay County Jail)
(Clay County Jail)

A man who was watching a 9-month-old in Orange Park in the hours leading up to her death has been arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child.

Baby Charli was being cared for by her mother's boyfriend at the Inn Town Suites in Orange Park in February when she stopped breathing, police said.

She was rushed to the hospital and later died.

Matthew Hamrysky was arrested for aggravated manslaughter of a child and child neglect with great bodily harm on Thursday.

"Neither of us ever did anything to hurt that baby," Charli's mother Ashley Smith told Action News Jax.

She declined to comment further about Hamrysky arrest.

Action News Jax obtained 36 pages of reports from the night of Charli's death.

Reports say it took Charli's mother and her mother's almost 40 minutes to call 911.

Investigators say Hamrysky told them he was in the bathroom when he heard Charli scream. When he came out, Charli's 2-year-old sister was standing over her.

He then called Charli's mother, who was working at a Captain D's down the road, around 7 p.m.

Hamrysky told Smith the baby was not breathing and took cell phone video of the 9-month-old having convulsions in her crib, police said.

It took them 36 minutes to call 911.

Documents reveal that Smith told investigators about a fall Charli had 3 days before.

Reports say Charli had at least 10 bruises and marks on her body at the time of her death. Some of her injuries were recent. She also had some bleeding on her brain.

Action News Jax is working to learn more about Hamrysky's arrest.

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