Bodycam film reveals a father’s surprising response to his daughter, Florida Paedophile Alyssa Zinger, 23, who allegedly posed as a 14-year-old to engage in sexual relations with teenage boys.
Alyssa Zinger enquires, ‘Will the photographs be posted online?’ amidst allegations of her involvement in sexual actions with minors as young as 12.
“They are treating me as if I am a murderer,” laments 23-year-old Alyssa Zinger while police conduct a search of her residence in connection with charges that she engaged in sexual actions over 30 times with youngsters as young as 12 years old.
Bodycam film captures the moment the Tampa Police Department arrives to Alyssa Zinger’s residence in Florida to execute a search warrant, and her father’s peculiar reaction upon returning home to the situation involving his daughter.
On November 24 of the previous year, a 22-year-old Zinger was apprehended after receiving information on her ‘inappropriate relationship with a boy victim aged between 12 and 15’.
Police records indicate that Alyssa Zinger contacted the victim by impersonating a home-schooled student online. She interacted with the victim predominantly via an online social media platform.
She has been charged with two felony counts of engaging in lewd or lascivious battery – which is engaging in ‘illegal contact’ with someone aged between 12 to 16 years old regardless of whether the victim agrees – as well as five counts of lewd or lascivious molestation from a defendant over 18 years old with a victim between 12 to 15 years old.
Speaking at the time, Chief Lee Bercaw said: “It is disturbing and unsettling to see an adult take advantage of a child and prey on them.
“Anyone who may have been a victim of Alyssa 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.”
Now, bodycam footage from the raid has emerged online and it depicts Alyssa Zinger and her parents outside the home as they wait for officers to conclude their search of the house.
The alleged ‘predator’ asks her dad whether cops were going to post ‘the pictures online’ – hinting at any nudes she may have on her phone.
Before complaining of the police’s thorough investigation to her father: “They’re acting like I’m a murderer.”
He replies: “Hey, they don’t know who’s here, they’ve got to protect themselves this is a crazy world, people are mental they’ve got issues – there’s men probably out there that would do something stupid you know what I mean? They’ve got to protect themselves.
“Do you know what I mean? There’s a lot of crazy people out there.”
Alyssa Zinger’s dad is then heard speaking to an officer claiming the allegations against his daughter may be a good thing for the family.
“If I could say one good thing that’s come out of this it’s brought our family back you know? We’ve got our daughter back, she lays with us and watches TV she hangs out with us now, but she won’t have a phone ever again,” he says.
Prior to that conversation, earlier in the day her dad suggesting her daughter is only in this situation because she got mixed up with the wrong adolescent crowd.
Saying: “She got messed up with the wrong kid you know, even though he’s a lot younger – he is, put it this way… my wife works for the federal government 38 years never been in trouble in her life, not a single thing. My daughter the same thing; me stupid little s*** when I was a kid um but we’re good honest people, hardworking people.
“She’s never been in trouble in her life, nothing but she met a kid and he even though he’s young – that’s why we’re we’re in this situation she never been in trouble in her life until she met him, and this kid’s like insane.”
Zinger is alleged to have engaged in sex acts with at least five children, as well as having a relationship with one of them that she met on Snapchat in May 2023 before breaking up in the following September.
The Floridian has been in jail since April and will remain there until her trial.
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