Bodycam footage shows dad's unexpected reaction to 'predator' daughter, 23, 'posing as a 14-year-old to have sex with teenage boys'
Joe Yates
Featured Image Credit: Police Handout/Hillsborough County Jail
"They're acting like I'm a murderer," complains 23-year-old Alyssa Zinger as police search her home amid allegations that she performed sex acts more than 30 times on boys as young as 12 years old.
Bodycam footage shows the moment Tampa Police Department show up at Zinger's home in Florida to execute a search warrant and when her parents return home her dad has a pretty bizarre reaction to the ordeal that her daughter finds herself in.
Last year, on November 24, a 22-year-old Zinger was arrested following a tip off that she had established an 'inappropriate relationship with a male victim between the ages of 12 and 15'.
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According to police files, 'Zinger made contact with the victim by posing as a home-schooled student online. She communicated with the victim primarily through 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 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 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."
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.
UNILAD has contacted Tampa Police Department for an update on the case and to see whether a trial date has been set.