The stepmother of Anna Kepner, the high school senior found dead on a Carnival cruise ship earlier this month, has invoked the Fifth Amendment in a custody battle as one of her minor children faces potential criminal charges in the Florida cheerleader’s death.

Shauntel Hudson — who was traveling with her kids, Kepner and the latter’s father — is pleading the Fifth as her testimony “could be prejudicial to her or her adolescent child in this pending criminal investigation,” per People.

Hudson invoked the right and requested the postponement of a hearing with ex-husband Thomas Hudson, in response to the latter’s emergency motion for temporary relief, obtained by the outlet.

Thomas Hudson’s filing refers to the teen as “a suspect in the death of the step child during the cruise.”

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