Vengeful mom on a Carnival Cruise attacked teen she mistook for bully who hit her sons: affidavit
A 38‑year‑old Minnesota mother was detained after an altercation on a Carnival cruise ship in international waters.
Paetra Ann Grandsberry of St. Paul, Minn., allegedly saw a group of youths running and assumed they were the same kids who had allegedly “attacked” her two sons earlier that day. The woman told crew security she was “extremely upset” about the incident and, “without hesitation,” ran at the teen she thought was a perpetrator.
According to an arrest warrant, Grandsberry tackled the teenager from behind, knocked him to the deck and then dragged him back to his feet by the collar. She loudly called him “little motherf–er.” Security officers intervened before the teen was seriously harmed; he sustained no injuries and required no medical care.
Bystanders report the teen was simply walking down a corridor when the mother mistakenly attacked him, believing he might be part of a group fleeing perceived danger. After the ship docked at Port Miami on Monday, police arrested Grandsberry on a charge of child abuse.
In a statement to investigators, the mother said she had “mistaken” the teenager for an assailant. She also told officers that “in the heat of the moment” she “ran up on the victim and accidentally fell on top of [him] and called him ‘little motherf–ker,’” according to the affidavit.
Grandsberry is currently held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a $2,500 bond. The incident took place off the coast of the Bahamas, just beyond the U.S. territorial waters.
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