I don’t think that TC was fighting any urges and I believe that he knew exactly what he was doing. He has gravitated to youth church groups and counseled at risk young men and IMO his immature but narcissistic ego sought groups where he would be the one in control. He preferred to stay in his room at lunch and hold court with the students versus hang out with his peers in the teacher’s lounge. I suspect that is because he would have been low man on the totem pole academically and he wouldn’t have been able to handle that. Adults are a little harder to con, well, with the exception of the victim blamers in the school and community. There is nothing in Tad Cummins behavior that we have seen so far that would convince me that he didn’t pointedly target certain girls to victimize. In addition, I believe he used his family and the church to further his disgusting agenda. His systemic grooming and escalation is suggestive of a perpetrator who has reached a level of skill and confidence that he became even bolder. He had a cot for sleeping in his classroom and used a school pc to manipulate his victim! Right under the noses of mandated reporters. IMO he was quite sure of what he was doing and he knew that if questioned, he could always pull out the injured, how can you question such a religious, ballad singing Grampa?! And I’m equally sure that they just wilted under the weight of their own self-doubt, inexperience, and the stress of standing up to others.