Relative of suspect in Anna Kepner's killing calls for her parents to face charges

The step-grandmother of Timothy Hudson, the 16-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner who has been charged successful her decease and intersexual assault, is calling for charges against Kepner's begetter and stepmother implicit alleged neglect during their cruise vacation.

Kepner, an 18-year-old precocious schoolhouse cheerleader, was connected a Carnival cruise vessel with her family, including her begetter and stepmother Chris and Shauntel Kepner, erstwhile she was killed.

"The deficiency of parental supervision connected a floating city," said Sonya Ziske, who says she helped rise Hudson. "Putting 3 teenagers, 2 boys and a miss successful a country unneurotic that were not raised together, It's conscionable a look for disaster."

This is the archetypal clip Ziske, who is besides Shauntel Kepner's stepmother, has spoken to the media astir the incident. According to Ziske, erstwhile she and her husband, who is Shauntel Kepner's biologic father, tried to scope retired to her astir the incidental aft speechmaking reports astir it online, she wouldn't explicate what happened.   

"Whatever you do, conscionable don't speech to the media," is each Shauntel Kepner told them, according to Ziske.

Hudson has told his household helium has nary recollection of the nighttime Kepner died. Ziske believes intoxicant was progressive and that helium whitethorn person blacked out.

"He genuinely does not remember," Ziske said. "Timothy has said that they were drinking. I judge 100% those kids were drinking connected the ship."

Shauntel and Chris Kepner person antecedently denied the children were drinking done their lawyer during a household tribunal proceeding related to a custody battle.

"The contented that counsel raised astir drinking, determination are videotapes connected the vessel that confirmed that determination was perfectly nary drinking," said Millicent Athanason, an lawyer for Shauntel Kepner during a November custody hearing.

"Here, the question is, did the parents bash thing oregon neglect to bash thing that enabled their kid to perpetrate this horrific crime?" said Dave Aronberg, erstwhile Palm Beach State Prosecutor, astir however investigations connected parental neglect typically instrumentality place. He is not progressive successful this case.

"It's a precise fact-based inquiry, and I don't cognize if determination are capable facts to prolong that charge," helium told CBS News.

Despite being charged arsenic an big and facing archetypal grade execution and intersexual battle charges, Hudson is not being detained due to the fact that helium is simply a minor.

Being charged successful a national tribunal has immense protections for minors, including that they beryllium held adjacent their household or, whenever possible, a foster location oregon community-based facility.

"I'm not saying helium did, oregon helium did not. I'm saying it's not his character," said Ziske. "Everybody's retired determination saying however he's walking free. He is not free. His beingness is over, whether helium is guiltless oregon guilty."

Hudson is presently successful the custody of his maternal uncle, but has spent clip with Ziske and different household members, including his young cousins who unrecorded with him successful a location successful Florida's Tampa area.

Ziske believes Chris and Shauntel Kepner are unfit to person custody of the remaining children, fixed what allegedly transpired connected the cruise ship.

"She kept them isolated from everybody implicit here. From their dad, from their grandparents. From each of us," Ziske said. "So, I don't cognize the past 2 years. Like, if helium was angry, oregon his intelligence state, I don't cognize immoderate of that."

New tribunal documents obtained by CBS News uncover authorities recovered Anna Kepner's compartment telephone from the ship's mislaid and found. The telephone had been recovered from a trash tin wherever Hudson allegedly was seen connected surveillance video seemingly disposing of the device.

According to the tribunal documents, Hudson and Anna Kepner were unsocial successful the compartment they shared from astir 7:51 p.m. to 11:21 p.m. the nighttime of the incident.

Prosecutors allege Anna Kepner's Apple Watch, which tracked her bosom rate, stopped moving during this time, which they judge is erstwhile the transgression allegedly occurred.

CBS News reached retired to Chris and Shauntel Kepner's attorney, who did not respond to our inquiry.