You assume he knew she was a prostitute. He may have thought she was just running around on him only to find out this.
apparently they met through a prostitution ad online
The emphasis was meant to be on, “just happened to acquire the phone” right at that fortuitous moment just a day before the crime was supposed to take place.
I’m not saying it didn’t happen that way. I’m just pointing out that, if information were to be acquired through NSA surveillance (which we know for a fact happens) and was passed to law enforcement (which we also know for a fact happens), this is the type of cover story that would likely be offered.
Looking back at what I wrote, however, you are correct — it wasn’t right of me to make assumptions about the child’s father himself. I really wasn’t trying to but I was tired and it came out completely wrong. I guess what I was trying to get at was that one would imagine that a prostitute would be very protective of her “work phone”, particularly when there was something that incriminating on it. If the father was in a relationship with the woman without knowing she was a prostitute, he most likely wouldn’t even know it existed, not to mention be able to get his hands on it. If he were aware that the mother was a prostitute, I was somewhat surprised that he was in his daughter’s life at all, or that he allowed his daughter to be around her. The fact that he was able to get a hold of that phone, especially at that time, seemed odd to me.
Mind you, I believe that events might very well have played out like the story says — I didn’t mean to imply it was unlikely. It’s just that part of me wonders whether the tip to legal authorities came from a different source.