Comments on: Additional details of Linnik family claim against City of Tacoma

By: A321196

A321196 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:08:56 +0000

This is another case of an attorney going after the deep pockets. I feel extremely sorry for the family. I raised a daughter and have a granddaughter. How do I protect them from every conceivable harm that may befall them? How do I expect the various police and judicial jurisdictions to track, limit, incarcerate, etc anybody and everybody that may cause harm? It is impossible. The family was not negligent that night. The answer to this problem is to have a one strike you’re out law with no plea bargains, no second chances. It is interesting that motor vehicle laws prohibit the reduction of a speeding ticket in a school zone, but, the law allows plea bargains when it comes to the safety of children. There is no 100% safe place for our children. I’m sure this attorney will find some government agency culpable for the disappearance of the young girl in McCleary, when or if the sex offender is ever found. Isn’t society as a whole responsible, when it refuses to tax itself to give government the ability to get these people off the street?

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By: fatuous

fatuous — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:24:41 +0000

While I feel sorry for these folks, I’m sick and tired of paying my tax dollars for someone to win the lawsuit lottery.

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By: skippythedog

skippythedog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:58:29 +0000

lawsuit….blood money and, right out of our pockets

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By: scottsch111

scottsch111 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:27:50 +0000

We are, those of us who know. We’re probably in the minority.

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By: saissingh

saissingh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:02:21 +0000

The City of Tacoma, Pierce County and every gov’t agency in the USA does not respond until a) massive media attention paints a negative picture {see Abu Ghurayb in Iraq or David Brame in Gig Harbor}, b) fiscal accountability is assigned {read any of the NYC cases} or c) someone loses his/her job. The TPD police union has such an influence that they received back pay and a 6% increase in salary while other city employees received little or none. This lawsuit is the best method available for people with grievances against the city. The David Brame/Crystal Judson fiasco ended with a principal person receiving 100% disability…Why aren’t the citizens of Tacoma upset about that?

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By: citizen4

citizen4 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:51:03 +0000

to the commenter joyce: so you think innocent people should be the ones “Locked away” then? Because that’s what your implying. Let’s limit the freedom of innocent people and children because the sickos have free reign and it’s their fault if they go into an alley or wherever these creeps decide to be. It’s not right. This happens over and over again. Look at the Jaycee Dugard case, if this guy had stayed behind bars like he SHOULD HAVE that nightmare, along with countless others would not have happened. Wake up. The laws need to change and the public needs to start speaking up. If that means lawsuits, than so be it. If the only way to get attention to this matter is hitting the cities and state of WA in their pocketbooks, then that’s what it takes.

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By: iarslangiray

iarslangiray — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:12:24 +0000

It is sad to see that a trial lawyer is trying to get rich at expense of the citizens. It is a tragedy, it is horrible, it is sick but it is not the fault of the citizens but a sick minded individual. I feel family’s pain and sorrow but this is not correct.

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By: fragile

fragile — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:28:15 +0000

scottsch111: unfortnately in this day and age, in order to get any goverment entity to step up and do the right thing, someone has to sue for a huge amount of money. If someone had done their job over the 2 decades Adhahn had been on their radar, maybe he would have been better supervised and this tragedy wouldn’t have happened.

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By: scottsch111

scottsch111 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:38:37 +0000

Whether or not the City of Tacoma did the best it could have done is easier to see in retrospect than in the heat of the moment. Regardless, I have a hard time seeing how suing the City helps anything but the family’s bank accounts. It’s not like the City is some evil organization that should be punished for one man’s horrible deeds. The City is you and me, and it’s our tax dollars that the family is chasing. If $32 million were divided evenly over Tacoma’s 200,000 citizens, they are asking each of us to pay them $160 because their child was killed. I am truly sorry that this happened, but I can’t afford to give them my family’s share of nearly $500 because it did.

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By: frankiethomas

frankiethomas — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:17:03 +0000

It wasn’t a dark alley and she wasn’t alone, until the last minute. Her father was within earshot. He heard her scream and saw the vanpull away – enough to get a good description and partial license plate. It was evening on the 4th of July – other kids were with her, she was just the last one. In the neighborhoods of Tacoma these alleys are backyard to backyard, this wasn’t a seedy alleyway. The cops had the tools and information to do their jobs – n this case they didn’t. They had every requirement met for an amber alert – they didn’t issue one until she was already dead.

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