Posted on 07/14/2007 7:54:59 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
South Sound residents outraged over the abduction and slaying of Zina Linnik have raised two key questions about Terapon Adhahn, named by Tacoma police as the suspect in the girl’s death.
Adhahn was an immigrant. Why wasn’t he deported after his 1990 conviction for incest? Because federal law didn’t require it. Adhahn, 42, came to America in 1977. He became a legal permanent resident, but never filed for citizenship.
Under federal law, a single conviction for a “crime of moral turpitude” doesn’t warrant deportation for a legal permanent resident, Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Friday.
“One conviction wouldn’t render him deportable, because he was a legal permanent resident more than five years,” Haley said.
Haley added that immigration officials knew about Adhahn’s 1990 conviction at the time.
The same laws say a second conviction could have triggered deportation. Adhahn was convicted of intimidation with a weapon in 1992. The case was filed in Tacoma Municipal Court. Immigration officials didn’t know about that conviction.
“We weren’t aware of the 1992 conviction at the time,” Haley said. “That happened in Municipal Court, so we were unaware.”
After his 1990 conviction, Adhahn had to register as a sex offender. How did he avoid community supervision, and why wasn’t the public notified about him?
He didn’t avoid supervision, and he registered regularly. But the same 1992 conviction overlooked by immigration officials went unnoticed locally, and Adhahn was considered a low-level offender.
After the 1990 conviction, he was classified as a Level 1 offender – the category deemed least likely to re-offend. Counselors praised his efforts at rehabilitation, according to court records.
Such offenders are not the sort whose names and faces appear on lists and notification fliers sent to communities. Police typically reserve that process for Level 3 offenders – the category deemed most likely to offend.
Pierce County prosecutors charged Adhahn this week with failure to register as a sex offender. However, court records show legal authorities took no notice of the alleged failure until this week, when Adhahn was already deemed a person of interest in Linnik’s disappearance.
Adhahn’s 15-year offender registration requirement theoretically ended in 2005, records state. However, his 1992 conviction should have restarted the offender registration clock. Instead of ending in 2005, his registration obligations were to have ended in September 2007, prosecutors wrote this week.
But the same 1992 conviction overlooked by immigration officials went unnoticed locally, and Adhahn was considered a low-level offender
What is a “low level” sex offender rapist ? Does that mean he only raped a time or two ?
Call Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid’s offices for their moronic comments on this case. Let’s get the official “Liberal” take on this outrage and then send it to talk radio where the only truth is told these days.
Good post, this girl was raped and killed by incompetent law enforcement. As well as incompetent public employees.
But the same 1992 conviction overlooked by immigration officials went unnoticed locally, and Adhahn was considered a low-level offenderWelcome to the world of plea bargaining. Our Thai friend committed rape, but pleaded guilty to incest. Incest is a "lower level" sex crime, because hideous as it is the assumption is that it's consensual, otherwise the charge would be rape.
What is a “low level” sex offender rapist ? Does that mean he only raped a time or two ?
As well as being an immigrant, felon and a registered sex offender, he was also a registered and active voter. Probably one of the hundred or so corpses and felons who put our democrat governor in office on the third recount. You can’t expect democrats to disenfranchise their constituencies.
Does anyone think that this sex offender register works? I think lots of crime is recidivism.
“Paging Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell...”
Save you breath. The politicians don’t give a damn about Americans.
So then his voter registration was illegal.
Bet he voted for Gregoire, too.
>>Under federal law, one rape conviction doesn’t warrrant deportation for a permanent resident? Change the damn law. Paging Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.<<
We need a new federal law called “Zina’s Law.”
From Michelle Malkin:
“Bad timing award goes to Democrat Washington state governor Christine Gregoire, who is leaving on a trip to lobby for open borders. How politically stupid and insensitive can you be?”
Welcome to Washington...just don’t bring your kids.
But you repeat yourself...
We SHOULD be deporting those who vote and are not US citizens. THAT should be a crime we will not forgive, along with rape, incest and weapons charges.........
What irks me is that the elite in Washington do not have to worry about living next door to these people.......us “little people” have to though. They do not care about us at all in their ivory towers.
You know, I also hope someone clips this story and hands it to that Elvira woman who is holed up in that church in Chicago. She is so worried about being “separated” from her child, think about the Linnik family. Maybe the priest at the church ought to read this story, too.
Congressman Billybob
Congressman Billybob
it makes one puke that the lib/dems allow all these a-hole illegals in and give them voting rights....
of course jorge bush and his no cajones republican supporters are dead silent on this issue!!!
this illegal should be strung up on a tree and photos posted at all our borders as a warning to illegals!!!!
Yes, if they wanted to, the government could enforce our immigration laws with the same commitment they enforce our tax laws, and this little girl would still be alive.
It does to some extent. Without sex offenders being registered, their neighbors would have no idea who they were. At least now we know a few of the people and the houses to look out for. It also helps put some of them back behind bars when they get caught for failing to register and probably has kept a number of them from moving into houses right next to schools or daycares. I'm sure there have probably been a few women and mothers who have discovered that they were dating sex offenders through registration and data bases as well and that's definitely a good thing.
I'd rather they were in jail, deported, executed or castrated, but the reality is that some of them are always going to be let out and registering them seems like a pretty good idea to me.
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