SERIAL HARASSER

Woman Who Menaced St. Louis Family in Viral Video Faces Federal Civil Rights Charge

The woman, Judy Ann Kline, went viral on TikTok for her campaign of harassment against the family at their home.

A woman accused of a campaign of racist abuse against a family in St. Louis—including making threats and breaking into their home with a hammer—now faces a federal civil rights charge. Federal prosecutors indicted the woman, 54-year-old Judy Ann Kline, on May 10, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Authorities first arrested Kline after videos of her menacing the family took off on TikTok. At one point, she allegedly even broke into the family’s home through a window and damaged their dryer, leading a St. Louis Court to charge her with burglary and property damage. Now federal prosecutors are throwing in a charge of interference with the right to fair housing, a charge sometimes used to prosecute alleged hate crimes.