Mentally defected woman charged with posing as teen to molest 5 middle-school-age boys is ‘the real victim,’ dad claims

[Jim Burton]

https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/us-news/f ... m-her-dad/

The dad of a Florida woman charged with posing as a teen to molest five middle-school-age 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.