COLUMBIA, Tenn. (WTVF) — The victim of Tad Cummins, a local teacher who took off with one of his students for a month, responded to his request for home confinement.
Cummins is serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges of transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in criminal sexual conduct and obstruction of justice.
He was a teacher at a Maury County school when he left the state with one of his young students with the intention of having sex with her.
In July, Cummins filed a motion for Compassionate Release. In it, he included a letter written to Judge Aleta Trauger saying, "I fall under the category of individuals considered high risk of death from the COVID-19 virus."
The teen victim responded to his request saying she does not want him released and that, "just knowing he will be near me terrifies me."
Read her full statement below:
For my safety, and for other children’s safety, Tad Cummins should not be allowed to return to the general population. Just knowing he resides there would make me fear being in Columbia even more than I already do. Even if he is made to stay on house arrest, just knowing he will be near me terrifies me. I have worked very hard over the last three years to move past the very dark time of my life involving Tad Cummins. If I have to live in constant fear again, I feel like all of that would be for nothing. The court ordered that he go to prison, and that is where he belongs.
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