Oh, it might be criminal in the sense that she's alleged to have blackmailed him with nude photos she had obtained of him. But I think that if the perpetrator had been a man, it's very unlikely that he would have been described in the headline as a "dad." I doubt his parental status would have been mentioned unless it was directly relevant.

In this story, her parental status was not relevant, but it was mentioned anyway. Which I think tells us a little bit about the mindset of people interested in the story.