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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A woman is accused of abusing her stepmother at the same home linked to a viral TikTok that showed a door-to-door salesman being racially harassed.
On Wednesday, 55-year-old Cheryl Pyle was booked into the Orange County on a charge of aggravated abuse of an elderly person.
According to investigators, someone called for a well-being check after a heated argument was heard.
Responding deputies said they found Pyle’s stepmother with severe swelling to her face and several injuries to her right arm.
According to the arrest affidavit, the victim later told paramedics that her stepdaughter and her stepdaughter’s boyfriend beat her. The victim also recalled a time when the couple tied a rope from her bedroom door to the garage door to prevent her from exiting her room, the affidavit states.
Deputies have responded to the address on Abberton Court multiple times this year.
The home was the same one at the center of a viral social media video, where a Black man said he was racially harassed.
The home gained national attention after a TikTok video posted by Antavis Johnson went viral. Johnson, a solar utility worker, said the incident happened July 29, when he knocked on the door while canvassing.
Johnson said the encounter quickly escalated into a verbal racial attack.
“Before she even said something back, her husband came. She called her husband downstairs,” Johnson recalled. “He came outside calling me all types of n-words, said he’d hang me and cussed me out. The wife also called me all types of n-words.”
Two weeks later, emergency crews responded to reports of a suspicious package which was later deemed safe by deputies and fire crews.
No arrests were made in the two previous incidents.
As of Thursday, Pyle was being held in jail without bond on a first-degree felony charge of aggravated abuse. Deputies have not said if Pyle’s boyfriend would face charges.
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