The baby-faced teen accused of sexually assaulting and killing his stepsister, Anna Kepner, on a family cruise was ordered behind bars until his trial – after months of being out on bail.
Timothy Hudson, 16, will be transferred into a US Marshal’s custody and held at the Citrus County Jail, according to court documents obtained by NBC Miami that were filed last week.
Hudson will undergo yet another mental health evaluation at the county jail. Once that is completed, he must be transferred to the juvenile facility at Miami-Dade’s Metro West Detention Center no later than July 10, according to the court order.
The 16-year-old is being tried as an adult on murder and aggravated sexual abuse charges. He faces up to life in prison.
Prosecutors requested that Hudson be held while awaiting the September trial. The federal judge presiding over the case agreed that “the danger posed by the conduct charged” was enough to “require detention.”
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“A now-decreed adult defendant charged on probable cause with deliberately taking a human life, and sexually assaulting his victim in the course of doing so, presents a danger to himself and to others that no curfew, monitor, or custodial placement can be trusted to contain,” US Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres wrote in the order.
Hudson was living with an uncle before the judge’s ruling.