{"id":84933,"date":"2026-06-11T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/step-grandmother-of-suspect-in-anna-kepner-case-calls-for-charges-against-kepners-father-stepmother\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:00:21","slug":"step-grandmother-of-suspect-in-anna-kepner-case-calls-for-charges-against-kepners-father-stepmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/step-grandmother-of-suspect-in-anna-kepner-case-calls-for-charges-against-kepners-father-stepmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Step-grandmother of suspect in Anna Kepner case calls for charges against Kepner&#8217;s father, stepmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The step-grandmother of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/anna-kepner-carnival-cruise-death-stepbrother-timothy-hudson\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Timothy Hudson<\/a><\/span>, the 16-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner who has been charged in her death and sexual assault, is calling for charges against Kepner&#8217;s father and stepmother over alleged neglect during their <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/anna-kepner-killed-cruise-ship-strpbrother-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cruise vacation<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Kepner, an 18-year-old high school cheerleader, was on a Carnival cruise ship with her family, including her father and stepmother Chris and Shauntel Kepner, when she was killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lack of parental supervision on a floating city,&#8221; said Sonya Ziske, who says she helped raise Hudson. &#8220;Putting three teenagers, two boys and a girl in a room together that were not raised together, It&#8217;s just a recipe for disaster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Ziske, who is also Shauntel Kepner&#8217;s stepmother, has spoken to the media about the incident. According to Ziske, when she and her husband, who is Shauntel Kepner&#8217;s biological father, tried to reach out to her about the incident after reading reports about it online, she wouldn&#8217;t explain what happened. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever you do, just don&#8217;t talk to the media,&#8221; is all Shauntel Kepner told them, according to Ziske.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson has told his family he has no recollection of the night Kepner died. Ziske believes alcohol was involved and that he may have blacked out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He truly does not remember,&#8221; Ziske said. &#8220;Timothy has said that they were drinking. I believe 100% those kids were drinking on the ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shauntel and Chris Kepner have previously denied the children were drinking through their attorney during a family court hearing related to a custody battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue that counsel raised about drinking, there are videotapes on the ship that confirmed that there was absolutely no drinking,&#8221; said Millicent Athanason, an attorney for Shauntel Kepner during a November custody hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here, the question is, did the parents do something or fail to do something that enabled their child to commit this horrific crime?&#8221; said Dave Aronberg, former Palm Beach State Prosecutor, about how investigations on parental neglect typically take place. He is not involved in this case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very fact-based inquiry, and I don&#8217;t know if there are enough facts to sustain that charge,&#8221; he told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being charged as an adult and facing first degree murder and sexual assault charges, Hudson is not being detained because he is a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Being charged in a federal court has vast protections for minors, including that they be held near their family or, whenever possible, a foster home or community-based facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying he did, or he did not. I&#8217;m saying it&#8217;s not his character,&#8221; said Ziske. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s out there saying how he&#8217;s walking free. He is not free. His life is over, whether he is innocent or guilty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hudson is currently in the custody of his maternal uncle, but has spent time with Ziske and other family members, including his young cousins who live with him in a home in Florida&#8217;s Tampa area.<\/p>\n<p>Ziske believes Chris and Shauntel Kepner are unfit to have custody of the remaining children, given what allegedly transpired on the cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She kept them isolated from everybody over here. From their dad, from their grandparents. From all of us,&#8221; Ziske said. &#8220;So, I don&#8217;t know the past two years. Like, if he was angry, or his mental state, I don&#8217;t know any of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New court documents obtained by CBS News reveal authorities recovered Anna Kepner&#8217;s cell phone from the ship&#8217;s lost and found. The phone had been recovered from a trash can where Hudson allegedly was seen on surveillance video apparently disposing of the device.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court documents, Hudson and Anna Kepner were alone in the cabin they shared from about 7:51 p.m. to 11:21 p.m. the night of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege Anna Kepner&#8217;s Apple Watch, which tracked her heart rate, stopped working during this time, which they believe is when the crime allegedly occurred.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News reached out to Chris and Shauntel Kepner&#8217;s attorney, who did not respond to our inquiry.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><br \/>\n    <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async 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