

Tad Cummins is a sick, disgusting criminal. For the last two years, I’ve been picking myself up, piece by piece, and proving to myself that I am much, much stronger than you convinced me I was. You preyed upon a vulnerable girl and robbed her childhood. I don’t know that any words could ever accurately express how much pain I have suffered and continue to suffer because of you. Cummins, what you did to me is unspeakable. They are still an ongoing struggle that I experience one day, and sometimes even one moment, at a time in my life. The effects have been devastating and permanent, and they are not over. “It is very difficult for me to stand here and fully describe the impact that Mr. Here is a portion of her statement, which was eventually read by a prosecutor, according to CNN affiliate WKRN: The girl attended Wednesday’s hearing and broke down in tears when she was called to read her impact statement. They were on the run for 39 days, posing as husband and wife as they traveled some 1,900 miles away from the girl’s hometown of Culleoka, Tennessee. “We feel good about it.”Ĭummins was arrested in April 2017 and the then 15-year-old girl was found safe at a remote cabin in Northern California.

“Today we got justice for a brave victim,” Don Cochran, US attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, told reporters outside a Nashville federal courthouse on Wednesday. Tad Cummins, former Tennessee teacher, indicted on federal charges Tad Cummins was charged with kidnapping 15-year old Elizabeth Thomas.
