Tad Cummins’ plan, federal prosecutors said, was to take the 15-year-old girl to Mexico. Instead, he’s headed back to Tennessee – to face charges of kidnapping a teenager and participating in a cross-country sex trip with her that ended in California.
In a Sacramento courtroom on Monday, the teacher from Culleoka, Tenn., agreed through his lawyer to return to his home state, which authorities say he left in mid-March with Elizabeth Thomas, the girl who was a student at the school where Cummins taught.