A Florida cheerleader was found asphyxiated under a bed on a Carnival Cruise ship inside a room she was sharing with her stepbrother, according to a new legal filing in a separate case.

Anna Kepner, 18, died on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship on Nov. 7 while on vacation with her family.

The cruise ship returned to PortMiami the next day, as was planned, Carnival said in a statement at the time, which added that the cruise line was assisting the FBI Miami with the investigation.

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A document filed Tuesday in Brevard County, Florida, in a separate case relating to Kepner’s stepmother’s past marriage claims that the stepmother, Shauntel Hudson, took her two children on the cruise without the consent of their father, Thomas Hudson.

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