A father has shared a troubling response after his daughter was charged with posing as a teenager to molest young boys.
Alyssa Zinger was arrested in 2023 after allegedly posing as a 14-year-old on social media and having sexual encounters with a boy between the ages of 12 and 15.
“It is disturbing and unsettling to see an adult take advantage of a child and prey on them,” police Chief Lee Bercaw said in a press release, per PEOPLE.
“Anyone who may have been a victim of Zinger’s, we encourage you to come forward. The Tampa Police Department will support you and ensure a predator like Zinger doesn’t cause you or others additional harm," Bercaw added.
Zinger's Father Speaks Out
Josh Zinger, the father of the imprisoned woman, spoke to The New York Post about his daughter's charges and strangely claimed that she is the real victim.
He revealed that Zinger grew up in a “good Christian home” in Tampa and throughout her life was charged with many mental disorders, such as ADHD, ADD, OCD, as well as Tourette’s syndrome, and anorexia.
“She had a lot of problems growing up. Our daughter has been to 10 to 12 psychologists and psychiatrists throughout her life,” the 55-year-old dad said, sharing that his daughter once got a 72 on an intelligence quotient test.
“She’s defective - mentally defective. And do you know what that means under the law? If somebody is mentally defective and has sex with somebody, no matter their age, it’s illegal to have sex with a mentally defective person,” he said, before bizarrely adding: “In all actuality, she is the victim.”
Josh Claims His Daughter Was "Seduced" By A Boy
The distraught father has alleged that the underage boy was the one who seduced his daughter and even took her virginity.
“That boy found her [social media] account, found her dancing like a 13-year-old on it and said, ‘Hey, girl, I’ll Uber you to my $5,000-a-month apartment - come on and hang out,’" he claimed “And then when she got there, she never said she wasn’t 14 to him, but he knew her real age, and he knew she was mentally unstable."
According to him, the unnamed boy “hid” Zinger in his family's house for five months, and introduced her to his friends, four of whom would become additional alleged victims in the state’s case against her.
“They all were like, ‘Hey, this girl is 14,’ wink, wink, high-five, high-five, ‘Your turn, bud,’” Josh said, adding that “this all will be proven in court."
“There will be no plea deal, there will be no sex offender registry, she’ll get time served and adios,” the father continued. “When we go to court, we’re going to chem ‘em all up, flip this around."
Zinger remains in jail on charges of lewd or lascivious battery, lewd or lascivious molestation, possession of child pornography, in-state transmission of child pornography by an electronic device, and sexual cyber harassment, all felonies.
Her trial is scheduled to begin on May 26.