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- Paetra Ann Grandsberry of Saint Paul, Minn., allegedly tackled a boy she believed previously hit her son while onboard the Carnival Conquest cruise ship on Sunday, Dec. 21
- Grandsberry was arrested and charged with child abuse after the Carnival Conquest docked at Port Miami on Monday, Dec. 22
- Grandsberry told authorities she “ran up on the victim and accidently (sic) fell on top of (him),” per a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report
A mother from Minnesota is facing criminal charges after tackling a teen she believed was a part of a group onboard a Carnival Cruise that had attacked her son.
Paetra Ann Grandsberry of Saint Paul, Minn., was arrested and charged with child abuse after the Carnival Conquest docked at PortMiami on Monday, Dec. 22.
The incident occurred at approximately 8:30 p.m. local time while the ship was near the Bahamas on Sunday, Dec. 21, according to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. A chief security officer on the ship had been alerted to teens fighting and “contact was made” with Grandsberry. She told the officer that she was “extremely upset” after her two sons were “attacked by several kids on the cruise ship.”
While she was speaking to security, she saw a group of kids running and believed one of them was the teen who had “hit her sons,” per the arrest report. “Without hesitation the defendant ran away from security and jumped on top of the victim and grabbed him by his collar.”
The boy identified Grandsberry in a photo lineup and shared his side with police, stating that he “was randomly walking down the hallway” when he saw a group of people running and joined in, worrying they were running from a perceived threat.
The victim said while he was running, Grandsberry “ran up on him from the back, tackling him to the floor and grabbing him by his collar and pulling him up,” deputies with the MDSO wrote.
The victim alleged that he heard Grandsberry urging her children to attack him, claiming that he was “one of the kids who attacked my son.”
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Grandsberry, 38, claimed to authorities that she “ran up on the victim and accidently (sic) fell on top of [him] and called him ‘little motherf—–.’”
Grandsberry is now being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on $2,500 bond, according to jail records.
PEOPLE has reached out to the MDSO, MDPD, Carnival and an attorney for Grandsberry, Emily Ann Hill.
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