Thread: Thai man sentenced to life in prison for Tacoma girl's slaying

TACOMA — For months, it's been a foregone conclusion that Terapon Adhahn would spend the rest of life in prison for the kidnapping and slaying last summer of 12-year-old Zina Linnik.

Nonetheless, the anguish and heartbreak caused by Zina's death as well as the rape of two other girls is spilled out in a Tacoma courtroom this afternoon as a judge heard testimony before sentencing Adhahn.

Members of Zina's family and one of the rape victims described how Adhahn took away something that can never be replaced.

"For him getting a chance to live, after everything he's done, it's sick," said Anatoly Kalchik, Zina's uncle. "He will be fed, he will be clothed and I don't think it's right."

Sabrina Rasmussen, 19, who was kidnapped and raped by Adhahn in 2000, had one question.

"I know he doesn't have to answer, [but] I would like to know why he didn't kill me," she said.

Because Pierce County prosecutors took the death penalty off the table last year in exchange for information about the location of Zina's body, Pierce County Superior Court Judge Rosanne Buckner had no alternative but to sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of parole...

...In court documents connected to the incest case, Adhahn said he had been brutally assaulted as a child by older male relatives when he was a child in Thailand...

Local News | Adhahn sentenced to life in prison for Tacoma girl's slaying | Seattle Times Newspaper

Only hope the general population takes him like they did Dahmer.