TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A 16-year-old boy being investigated in the death of his stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship last month didn't have his father's permission to go on the trip, the dad said in family court papers accusing his ex-wife of failing to supervise the teen.

The teenager and his 18-year-old stepsister, Anna Kepner, were allowed to share a room on the cruise and the boy's mother “failed to properly supervise” him, the boy's father, Thomas Hudson, said Thursday in a court motion seeking greater parenting time with the boy and the other minor child he shares with his ex-wife, a 9-year-old daughter. Hudson and his ex-wife, Shauntel Hudson, also have an adult son.

Kepner was found asphyxiated under a bed in the room she shared on the ship with the teenage boy, Hudson said in the co

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