{"id":120039,"date":"2017-04-20T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120039"},"modified":"2017-04-20T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:41:11","slug":"girl-found-safe-teacher-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120039","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee girl found safe in Calif, teacher arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-120041\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ThomasCummins-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ThomasCummins-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ThomasCummins-262x175.jpg 262w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ThomasCummins.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Authorities say a 15-year-old Tennessee girl who disappeared with her teacher last month has been found safe in California and the teacher has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tweeted Thursday that teacher Tad Cummins had been taken into custody. The agency said it would provide more details in a press conference later.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Thomas disappeared from her home near Columbia on March 13. Columbia is about 45 miles (70 kilometers) south of Nashville.\u00a0 They were found at a cabin in a cabin\u00a0in Cecilville, which is about 120 miles south of the Oregon state line.<\/p>\n<p>The duo has been sought since March, when an Amber Alert was issued.\u00a0 Cummins was Elizabeth&#8217;s 50-year-old high-school teacher\u00a0at Culleoka Unit School\u00a0in Maury County, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Court papers filed recently in the girl&#8217;s disappearance say she was afraid of the teacher and thought she would face repercussions at school if she resisted him.<\/p>\n<p>The TBI says, Cummins is in custody in a California jail\u00a0without bond, awaiting extradition to Tennessee to face charges of sexual contact with a minor and aggravated kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Authorities say a 15-year-old Tennessee girl who disappeared with her teacher last month has been found safe in California and the teacher has been arrested. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tweeted Thursday that teacher Tad Cummins had been taken into custody. The agency said it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120067,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120039\/revisions\/120067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}