TACOMA – A Thai immigrant who directed police 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 today 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, and that he sexually abused – as many as 200 times – a girl who lived with him, said Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Mary Robnett.
Adhahn has also been charged with failing to register as a sex offender after he was convicted of incest in 1990 for violently raping his 16-year-old half-sister.
However, Adhahn still 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 rural Pierce County last week, police said.
Prosecutors expect to file charges this week in the Linnik case. Meanwhile, police in nearby Lakewood on Tuesday named Adhahn as a possible suspect in the abduction and death of Adre’Anna Jackson, 10, who was found dead in a Pierce County field in 2006.
Since his arrest, Adhahn had been held in federal custody on a potential immigration violation. On Wednesday, Tacoma police booked him into the Pierce County Jail for investigation of dozens of charges – including 50 counts of child rape. The charges actually filed against him Wednesday are representative of those counts and relate to two victims other than Linnik or Jackson, Robnett said.
One is a 17-year-old Wichita, Kan., girl who told investigators she lived with Adhahn in Spanaway from ages 12 to 15. She said he molested her as many as 200 times – during at least 15 of which she was “physically restrained and held down when the defendant raped her,” according to an affidavit for probable cause. One of those times was at gunpoint, it said.
The other is an 11-year-old girl abducted on her way to school in May 2000. She was attacked and dropped off in a remote area of Fort Lewis. Investigators collected DNA and filed charges in 2002 against a John Doe suspect with that DNA profile.
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