Richmond, Va., newlyweds Matthew and Lauren Urey were on a day trip to White Island from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Ovation when the volcano went off, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Matthew, 36, was airlifted to a hospital in Christchurch with burns over 80 per cent of his body, while Lauren, 32, underwent surgery at an Auckland hospital with burns over 20 per cent of her body, the paper reported.

Matthew later left a frantic voice message at his mother’s home telling her he and his new wife were “very badly burned.”

Barbara Barham, Lauren’s mother, told the Washington Post that she learned her daughter had been hurt when she got a call from Matthew’s mom.

“Her son called and said that they had been on the excursion and there had been a volcano eruption and they were burned very bad,” Barham told the outlet.

He has been charged with negligent homicide in the death of the toddler.

The grandfather by the name of Salvatore “Sal” Anello was playing with his granddaughter on the 11^th floor just close to the docked ship in Puerto Rico when Anello sat the girl on the open windows with the thoughts that it was shut, according to the attorney of the family.

Thus, prosecutors allege that he negligently exposed his granddaughter through one of the windows, according to a statement from the Puerto Rican Department of Justice.

However, the family’s attorney came to the granddad’s defence when they said, “Grandfather did not dangle baby from cruise ship window. This is not the Michael Jackson story.”

Unfortunately for the family, the San Juan judge “found cause for arrest against the accused, and imposed a bail of $80,000″, the governor’s office said.

After the accident, Chloe’s parents pointed fingers at the cruise line company, Royal Caribbean, blaming them for their daughter’s demise, saying point-blank that the windows should have been shut.

An attorney representing the family, Michael Winkleman, said that the “criminal charges are pouring salt on the open wounds of this grieving family,” in a civil suit against the cruise line company.

“Clearly this was a tragic accident and the family’s singular goal remains for something like this to never happen again,” Winkleman said in a statement.