A man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 3-1/2-year-old daughter through child abuse didn’t do it, the man’s lawyer told a state jury Tuesday.

Joshua Kalili, 26, is on trial for murder in the Oct. 21, 2014, death of Styzilee Reyes.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office says Reyes died from blunt impact to her abdomen with intestinal lacerations.

Deputy Prosecutor Kelsi Guerra told the jury that Styzilee had more than 24 bruises over her body when she died, some new and others, including some on her head and scalp, old. She said Styzilee also had old cuts and a rib fracture that was a week old.

Guerra said a child abuse expert says the injuries to Reyes were inflicted intentionally. “She will tell you that these injuries were not common household injuries (or) common childhood injuries,” Guerra said.

She also said the medical examiner who performed the autopsy says the injuries that killed Reyes occurred within hours of the girl’s death.

Nine days before the girl died, her mother, Irene Reyes, took her to the emergency room at Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.

Defense lawyer Randall Hironaka told the jury that Styzilee Reyes was vomiting, had diarrhea and complained of dizziness. He said the emergency room doctor misdiagnosed her with stomach flu and a diabetes-related reaction, prescribed her some medication and sent her home with her mother.

In those nine days, Hiro- naka said, many people, including family and friends, had contact with the girl. He said she and her two sisters stayed at Kalili’s mother’s house for a few days and at their maternal grandmother’s for another few days. Two days before Reyes died, Hironaka said Kalili and Irene Reyes entertained guests at their Hale Wai Vista public housing unit in Waianae to watch football.

“Nobody can take the stand and tell you that they saw Joshua strike, shove, kick, punch or otherwise harm Styzilee in that week and a half prior to Oct. 21, 2014,” Hironaka said, “Nobody will take that stand and tell you that they saw Joshua, strike, shove, kick, punch or otherwise harm Styzilee on Oct. 21, 2014.”

Kalili stayed home from work Oct. 21 with Styzilee Reyes and her younger sister. Hironaka said Kalili instructed Styzilee to brush her teeth, and when he went to check on her, found the stool she uses to reach the sink toppled over and her on the floor complaining of stomach pain. He said she also told Kalili that she had hit her head. Hironaka said it was Kalili who took the girl to WCCHC, where she died.

Guerra said Styzilee Reyes arrived at WCCHC with a fresh bruise to her forehead that nurses and doctors noticed only after it began to darken.