Bail denied to cruise ship terror hoax girl

Invoking a tough-love approach to a daughter accused of a high-seas terrorist hoax, a California family refused to help her with bail on Thursday and a federal judge here ordered Kelley Marie Ferguson ‘‘held without bond’’.

She was arrested on Saturday and charged with two counts of making a terrorist threat after allegedly leaving notes promising to ‘‘kill all Americanos aboard’’ the cruise ship on which she and her family were vacationing.

Authorities say she has confessed to committing the hoax to force the ship back to its Ensenada, Mexico, starting point so she could return to her boyfriend. The threats led the ship to divert from a scheduled stop in Hilo on Hawaii’s Big Island and anchor off Pearl Harbour, near Honolulu on Oahu, where it was boarded and searched by 120 federal and local agents.(LA-TWP)