Exclusive | Fla. woman charged with posing as teen to molest 5 middle-school-age boys is the real victim, dad claims

The dad of a Florida woman charged with posing as a teen to molest five middle-school-aged boys has bizarrely claimed to The Post his daughter is “mentally defective” and the real victim of the sex crimes.Before Alyssa Ann Zinger, 25, was arrested for allegedly having sex with underage boys, the accused pedophile grew up in a “good Christian home” in suburban Tampa – but dealt with a myriad of mental disorders, including ADHD, ADD, OCD, Tourette’s Syndrome and anorexia, according to her father, Josh Zinger. “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, adding that Zinger once scored a 72 on an intelligence quotient test – well below the assessment’s 100-point average.  “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,” Josh fumed.“In all actuality, she is the victim.”Zinger, then 22, was first arrested in November 2023 for allegedly engaging in at least 30 sexual acts with a boy between the ages of 12 and 15 after creating a fake persona on social media as a homeschooled 14-year-old in order to lure in underage victims, prosecutors said. But it was the boy — who Josh distastefully dubbed “the little bastard” — who seduced Zinger and even took her virginity, her father alleged.  “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,’ ” the dad said.“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,” Josh claimed. Over the next five months, the young boy “hid” Zinger in his family’s ritzy, downtown Tampa apartment, h...