Wash. Slaying Suspect Charged With Rape

TACOMA, Wash. – A Thai immigrant who police say directed them to the body of a 12-year-old Tacoma girl abducted July 4 was charged Wednesday with kidnapping, rape and child rape in two other cases.

Terapon Adhahn, 42, was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court on the charges, which stem from allegations that he abducted and raped an 11-year-old girl on her way to school in 2000. He also was accused of sexually abusing a girl who lived with him as many as 200 times, said Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Mary Robnett.

He also has been charged with failing to register as a sex offender after he was convicted of incest in 1990 for violently raping a female relative. He is being held in federal custody on a potential immigration violation.

Adhahn has not been charged in the case of Zina Linnik, who vanished from an alley behind her Tacoma home during a neighborhood fireworks display July 4. Her father heard her scream and saw a van driving away; his description of its license plate led detectives to Adhahn, who directed investigators to the girl’s body in a rural area, police said.

Prosecutors expect to file charges this week in the Linnik case.

Police in nearby Lakewood on Tuesday named Adhahn a “person of interest” in the abduction and death of Adre’Anna Jackson, 10, who was found dead in a Pierce County field in 2006.