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Why Are All These Young Women Having Sex With Their Students?

Why Are All These Young Women Having Sex With Their Students?

The rise of the female groomer.

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Ted Bauer
Jul 08, 2025
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Just this morning, I saw two more of these types of videos. In the above screenshot, you have a 27 year-old woman in Ohio who is essentially stalking (and calls herself “obsessive”) a younger man who just got a job at a middle school. I don’t think the younger man was underaged in this case, but it’s still what you’d call a “power dynamic” issue. Here’s the video.

Then you have Alyssa Zinger, out of Tampa, which is a 2023 case with recently-released body-cam. She was 21, apparently working in the Kroger bakery section, and was luring 13- and 14-year-old boys on Snapchat for sex, claiming she was 14 and homeschooled. She apparently had sex with five boys this way. Here’s that body-cam:

In the beginning of that body-cam, she’s actually at the police station with a 13-year-old boy, because they got caught shoplifting at Nordstrom. She keeps telling the cop she’s 14. The cop runs her name and finds an “Alyssa Zinger” who is 21 (that’s her) and she says, “Oh, that’s my half-sister with the same name. Haha.” The cop believes that, and stunningly, they release Zinger and this 13 year-old to his dad outside the police station.

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I actually wrote about Zinger last April when she finally got put into jail.

Zinger and the Ohio lady above are part of a deeper trend of older women sleeping with younger boys, and eventually getting caught —

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