![]() The student was “very credible,” Maury County Sheriff Bucky Rowland said, setting off an investigation into Cummins’ behavior and relationship with students. They asked her repeatedly, ‘Are you sure?’ She told them she was sure what she saw.” “Then the Maury County Schools’ central office sent two women to interview her, and the sheriff’s department came and talked to her at least three times. “She wrote down what happened and gave it to a teacher,” her family said. The witness considered Cummins to be a mentor and father figure and trusted him. ![]() The seventh-grade honor student regularly visited Cummins’ classroom after school for a few minutes to talk with the health teacher and frequently saw Thomas with him, the family said. She went home, told her mother, and knew what she had to do - report him the next morning.” She thought of Tad as someone who really cared about his students and had a hard time with what she saw. “She was shocked and walked out of the classroom,” a family member said. Cummins and Thomas were sitting side by side in chairs and kissed on the lips as the grandchild, who also attends Culleoka, was using one of the classroom’s computers. ![]() 23 with his grandson and Thomas, the girl told family members, when she walked in and inexplicably saw them kissing. Elizabeth Thomas growled at the student who reported her for kissing former Culleoka teacher Tad Cummins inside his classroom, her family told The Daily Herald, but otherwise the two had no contact with the witness after she turned them in.Ĭummins was inside his classroom after school Jan.
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