SAN FRANCISCO -- Two men accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl and holding her for 10 months in a dilapidated van were charged Tuesday with a total of 113 sex crimes against the child and one other victim.
Luis R. 'Tree Frog' Johnson, 33, was charged with 112 sex crimes, including 16 counts of sodomy by force, 10 counts of rape, 30 counts of forcible oral copulation and 56 counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child by force.
Johnson was also charged with one count of kidnapping, 15 counts of felonious assault and one count of conspiracy.
District Attorney Arlo Smith said he would ask the court to try Johnson's accomplice, 18-year-old Alex Cabaraga, as an adult. He is charged on one count of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child by force.
The men were also charged jointly with false imprisonment.
Smith said the pair would be arraigned Wednesday in San Francisco Municipal Court.
The charges stem from the kidnapping and imprisonment of Tara Burke, who was seized last February.
The two men were apprehended Saturday night when an 11-year-old Vietnamese boy who was also a captive escaped and led police to the van where they found the suspects and the little girl.
Meanwhile, in Pittsburg, Calif., Tara's life began to return to normal. She sat on her father's lap, munching her favorite 'Strawberry Shortcake' cereal and showed signs of readjusting to her family.
'Whatever may have happened, she's still a daddy's girl,' said her father, Steve Burke, a blind piano tuner.
The family spent their first full day together Monday decorating their Christmas tree, and Tara began to get over her intial shyness.
'When we first saw her Sunday, she wouldn't talk to us -- she just kept staring down,' Tara's mother, Elizabeth Burke, 28, said Tuesday.
As her mother showed her family pictures, the 3-year-old 'got that old familiar silly grin, and I thanked God that she was back.'
She became upset, however, when her mother wanted her to wear a dress.
'Those men programmed her to say she was a boy, and she sort of believes it.'
She also insisted that her parents follow her around the house.
Walking into her bedroom for the first time since her abduction Feb. 6, Tara exclaimed: 'This is my room -- these are my toys!'
She played with her dogs, toys and only brother, Jeremy, 10, who had been with the tot in the family van at a Concord shopping center when a man knocked on the window and said her mother wanted her inside the store.
Dr. Graeme Hanson, a child pysychiatrist in San Francisco, said because the men were strangers, the children stood a better-than-average chance of overcoming the psychological shock through the support of family members.
