A Florida woman who allegedly posed as a teen and had sex with a middle schooler last year is facing new charges involving more victims, WTSP-TV reports.
Police in Tampa on Friday arrested 23-year-old Alyssa Zinger after identifying at least four new victims. She is accused of pretending to be a 14-year-old home-school student on social media, where she initially encountered the youths.
Authorities allege that Zinger sent the victims sex videos and engaged in sex acts with multiple minors who attend Wilson Middle School in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, the first known victim, a boy who was 12-15 years old, told police that he and Zinger engaged in sexual activity around 30 times over four months.
At one point in the relationship, the pair were caught shoplifting in July from a Nordstrom department store, where Zinger allegedly claimed to be 14 years old. Authorities later determined that Zinger was actually 22 and working at a Publix grocery store.
Zinger allegedly told the first known victim that she had engaged in sexual activity with other boys who were between the ages of 13 and 15.
One of the victims reportedly told an adult at the school about Zinger, which led to police getting involved.
WFLA-TV reports that Zinger faces the following new charges: two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim between the ages of 12 and 15; two counts of lewd or lascivious battery; possession of child pornography; in-state transmission of child pornography by an electronic device; and sexual cyber harassment.
In total Zinger is facing 11 felony charges and could be sentenced up to 146 years in prison if convicted on all of them.
Zinger was reported on a mental health watch Friday, when she appeared in court wearing a protective gown, according to Bay News 9. She is expected back in court on Monday.
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[Feature Photo: Alyssa Zinger/Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office]
