Found Safe TN - Mary Catherine Elizabeth Thomas, 15, Maury County, 13 March 2017 #8

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15-year-old Mary Catherine Elizabeth Thomas may be in the area of Decatur, Alabama.

She is white, blonde hair, hazel eyes, 5 feet 5 inches and 120 pounds. She was last seen wearing a flannel shirt and black leggings.

Thomas is believed to be in the company of 50-year-old Tad Cummins, a white male, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes. He is believed to be armed with two handguns and driving a Silver Nissan Rogue with Tennessee tag number 976ZPT.

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http://wate.com/2017/03/14/statewide-endangered-child-alert-for-missing-middle-tennessee-teen/
http://www.waff.com/story/34847631/endangered-tn-runaway-may-be-in-decatur-area
http://www.wbir.com/news/crime/statewide-endangered-child-alert-issued-for-missing-teen/422561108

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Witness at school considered Tad Cummins a ‘mentor,’ but reported seeing him kiss Elizabeth Thomas
Posted Mar 20, 2017
Updated at 9:47 AM

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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.

Cummins was inside his classroom after school Jan. 23 with his grandson and Thomas, the girl told family members, when she walked in and inexplicably saw them kissing. 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.

"She was shocked and walked out of the classroom," a family member said. "She didn't expect that. She didn't know why it was happening. She thought of Tad as someone who really cared about his students and had a hard time with what she saw. She went home, told her mother, and knew what she had to do — report him the next morning."
 
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Amber Alert: Family doesn’t think Elizabeth Thomas left willingly
Published: March 29, 2017

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – While more than 1,000 tips have poured in to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, an Amber Alert remains in effect for Elizabeth Thomas and her former teacher Tad Cummins.

Authorities held a joint press conference Tuesday where they stressed the relationship between Thomas and Cummins was not a romance.

“Grooming, because that is exactly what was going on. You had a 50-year-old educated man who was obviously trying to convince this venerable 15-year-old girl that being in a relationship with him was the right thing to do,” said Cooper.

<snip>

DA Cooper said Tuesday that Mexican law enforcement was notified of the Amber Alert for Thomas. And while investigators say they don&#8217;t have any substantial tips that lead them to believe the two have crossed the border, but they are not ruling anything out.
 
Without pulling up the packet again, it seems that ET's father wasn't informed immediately of the kiss allegation and when he did find out, no one really discussed with him according to the letter from the lawyer.

The second the kiss allegation happened, the father should have been called and brought in to a meeting at the school, if they didn't do that.

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IIRC the father wasn't informed by the school at all. The sheriff went to his house 1 WEEK later and that's how he found out about the kiss.
 
At schools where I have worked, it has been made clear that computers are district property and that administration even had software that allowed them to review computer usage. So there is a possibility they could have legally, but the draft system they were using would've been difficult to detect in my mind...especially if they were erasing them after they were read. Even if an admin checked, there might not have been any draft messages at the time.


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I believe it saved the drafts to the server and that is how LE found them. With your company email the IT person has the ability and companies have the authority, to read every single email of every single employee.

I'm not sure if an IT person would not have thought to go through everything. If the school just said "give me the password" and looked through his emails, then sure that person might not have thought to even open the draft folder.

I just looked at the letter.. 7 days after the kiss, LE informed ET's dad about the allegation of the kiss.

When the child reported the kiss to the school, ET's father should have been notified immediately, there is no excuse for not notifying him of an allegation like that involving his daughter.

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IIRC the father wasn't informed by the school at all. The sheriff went to his house 1 WEEK later and that's how he found out about the kiss.
Yup, I just pulled up the letter and found that. ET's father should have been called immediately after the allegation.

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ET's sister has also said that some teachers have not been great with some of the sisters also. She didn't expound on what was said to them because she wasn't there.

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Right. I would definitely want to look into those perceptions and find out what the teachers specific actions and statements were. I just don't want to generalize that any teacher not wearing a green ribbon in front of their class must be abstaining bc they support Tad.

Usually teachers quickly distance themselves from other staff charged in a crime. If this isn't the case, the school should be very immediately and very diligently looking into the sister's report that teachers were being supportive of Tad.


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Can't believe we are at thread #8 & still no solid leads or confirmed sightings [emoji31]


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Can you link a msm source for this info about the second student. That's been a source of confusion for me, and I can't recall where I initially read about that. Thanks.

Here is the article where I first saw a second student and it being a grandchild. With this and the packet, I don't know if this 2nd student is the same 2nd student mentioned in the information the school put in TC's file about the allegation.

http://www.columbiadailyherald.com/...but-reported-seeing-him-kiss-elizabeth-thomas

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Can't believe we are at thread #8 & still no solid leads or confirmed sightings [emoji31]


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I know.. I would just feel so much better if we could at least get a confirmed sighting or something. Nothing since the phone ping just gets me more concerned with each passing day.

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15-year-old Mary Catherine Elizabeth Thomas may be in the area of Decatur, Alabama.

She is white, blonde hair, hazel eyes, 5 feet 5 inches and 120 pounds. She was last seen wearing a flannel shirt and black leggings.

Thomas is believed to be in the company of 50-year-old Tad Cummins, a white male, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes. He is believed to be armed with two handguns and driving a Silver Nissan Rogue with Tennessee tag number 976ZPT.

ElizabethThomasMissingChild16x9_1489527855127_8971019_ver1.0.JPG


http://wate.com/2017/03/14/statewide-endangered-child-alert-for-missing-middle-tennessee-teen/
http://www.waff.com/story/34847631/endangered-tn-runaway-may-be-in-decatur-area
http://www.wbir.com/news/crime/statewide-endangered-child-alert-issued-for-missing-teen/422561108

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I believe LE corrected her height in the PC yesterday she is 5 ft tall?
 
Witness at school considered Tad Cummins a &#8216;mentor,&#8217; but reported seeing him kiss Elizabeth Thomas
Posted Mar 20, 2017
Updated at 9:47 AM

170317220019-05-tad-cummins-exlarge-169.jpg


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.

Cummins was inside his classroom after school Jan. 23 with his grandson and Thomas, the girl told family members, when she walked in and inexplicably saw them kissing. 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.

"She was shocked and walked out of the classroom," a family member said. "She didn't expect that. She didn't know why it was happening. She thought of Tad as someone who really cared about his students and had a hard time with what she saw. She went home, told her mother, and knew what she had to do &#8212; report him the next morning."

From this article, it seems unclear that the grandson was the "friend" who accompanied the student when she confronted TC. In fact, from this information, we don't know if the grandson was questioned (though I assume he was) or what he told the school he saw or didn't see.
 
From this article, it seems unclear that the grandson was the "friend" who accompanied the student when she confronted TC. In fact, from this information, we don't know if the grandson was questioned (though I assume he was) or what he told the school he saw or didn't see.
Right, that's what I said.. After reading the information from TC's employment file, I'm not sure if the 2nd student mentioned there is the 2nd student mentioned in the article.

So we don't know if there were 3 students involved or just two.

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IIRC the father wasn't informed by the school at all. The sheriff went to his house 1 WEEK later and that's how he found out about the kiss.

That is something that REALLY has me perplexed. The sheriff's department doesn't just show up at your house for no reason. Someone had to have initiated that. So, was it the school? And if so, why? If they investigated the reported kiss and concluded it couldn't be substantiated, then surely there must have been some other reason to involve the sheriff's office. If it wasn't the school who involved LE, then who was it? And what prompted this person to involve LE?
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I'm sorry I must have missed something. Can you point me in the direction of a source about her wanting her friend to take her home? Was this when she was dropped off at Shoneys?

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The link may not be allowed her but it's in the podcast and her sister confirmed it's true. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, though.

http://www.crimeonline.com/2017/03/2...-with-threats/

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Thanks the lawyer for the family states this in the podcast, either from direct questioning the friend or second hand report.
I guess what I don't get is why the friend would say this if no one else would know?
And the reasoning she says she did not turn back is the friend would be late for work. Is this a school friend?
If so wasn't school not in session that day? What student with an afterschool job schedules to work on a day off?
Possible? Sure
The friend's role is murky IMO
 
That is something that REALLY has me perplexed. The sheriff's department doesn't just show up at your house for no reason. Someone had to have initiated that. So, was it the school? And if so, why? If they investigated the reported kiss and concluded it couldn't be substantiated, then surely there must have been some other reason to involve the sheriff's office. If it wasn't the school who involved LE, then who was it? And why did this person call them?

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If I'm not mistaken, by law the school should have to report it to LE. But an article I read way back said LE informed the school they were investigating.

That could have been just how it was worded and the school did actually report it. It also could be the school didn't report it to LE and someone else aware of the investigation at school, reported it to LE.

I've wondered about that also.
 
If I'm not mistaken, by law the school should have to report it to LE. But an article I read way back said LE informed the school they were investigating.

That could have been just how it was worded and the school did actually report it. It also could be the school didn't report it to LE and someone else aware of the investigation at school, reported it to LE.

I've wondered about that also.

I also wonder if it's possible that, in the course of the school's investigation, either ET, TC, or someone else said something that might have made the school concerned about ET's home situation, and THAT prompted the involvement of LE.

I honestly haven't the first clue. But if the school, for whatever reason, became concerned about something someone told them in the course of their investigation regarding ET's home situation, then it would make more sense as to why her father wasn't immediately advised of the initial school report.
 
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