I Said Something Like This Was Going to Happen

Our friend and fellow advocate, Alison Arngrim, has been a tireless champion for changes in the sentencing laws that permit a "family member" convicted on incestuous charges, to be paroled back into the home where the offense most often occurs instead of serving jail time. Working with www.protect.org this woman who played "Nellie" (the 'mean one') on "Little House on the Prairie" sent me this article headed by these words: "I said something like this was going to happen." This is hard to read, but I urge you to do so...and think hard on the dehumanizing depictions of young women in today's media. It's all connected, my friends.
PP

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OK, now somebody's dead. A 12 year old girl in Tacoma, to be exact. So, now can we all stop saying, "he's not a real child molester, it was just a family member", "intra-familial offenders are different- they're not violent" and start dealing with reality here??

His first victim was not "an aberration due to stress" or a "dysfunctional family dynamic". She was just someone he raped and didn't get around to killing. Now he's done it and everyone is scratching their heads trying to figure out why he was not in jail, not deported, not busted for not registering - nothing.

Cause it was "only a relative".

Did the State of Washington use its incest loophole to free a deadly predator?

Jul 13, 2007

The body of 12-year old Zina Linnik, who was abducted from outside her home in Tacoma, Washington on July 4th, has been found. Reports say police were led to the body by the suspected killer, Terapon Adhahn, 42.

National news media, soon to be followed by politicians, is now focusing on the hot topic of immigration, asking why Adhahn, a Thai immigrant and sex offender who had failed to register as required by law, was not deported. But U.S. immigration policies might not be the real smoking gun in the Zina Linnik abduction and murder. That could be Washington State's foul incest loophole, a longstanding state policy that rewards child predators who target children in their own families.

Deviancy counseling for a child rapist? According to the Associated Press, Terapon Adhahn was convicted of the crime of incest in 1990, after charges of child rape were dropped.

"Court records show Adhann was charged in 1990 with raping a 16 year-old relative," reports the AP. "He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree incest in exchange for completing 60 months of sexual-deviancy counseling."

After a successful five-year campaign by PROTECT to roll back incest loopholes in North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, California and New York, the State of Washington just might be the boldest remaining defender of reuniting child rapists with their victims. Could Washington's notorious SSOSA (Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative) program, which treats incest as a lesser crime than other types of sexual assault, have blood on its hands in the Zina Linnik murder? It wouldn't be anything new. We will continue to dig and keep you updated.