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 Linnick 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.