The interview is Thomas’ first on-camera interview since her ordeal.Ĭummins’ predatory relationship with Thomas first came to light when a 12-year-old student at Culleoka Unit School in Culleoka, Tennessee, told administrators she had seen Cummins kissing Thomas, the Tennessean reported. “I didn’t wanna tell my parents that a grown man kissed me, and I didn’t wanna tell my friends that a grown man kissed me, because I don’t like having the spotlight on me,” she said in the interview clip, a preview of a longer interview set to air Friday night. Thomas, who was 15 at the time, said she had been homeschooled and had never had a boyfriend, and avoided telling anyone about the incident. “Whenever he first kissed me, that was when I realized ‘This is going too far,” she told Pilgrim. “You’d look pretty good naked,” Thomas said he told her.īut it wasn’t until he forcibly kissed her that she realized they had crossed a line. Thomas told ABC’s Eva Pilgrim she was sitting on a desk chatting with Cummins, 51, when out of the blue he came onto her. The Tennessee school teacher accused of kidnapping a teenage girl threatened her for weeks before finally coercing her to go on the run with him, t he girl said in an interview with ABC's 20/20.Įlizabeth Thomas, whose disappearance alongside teacher Tad Cummins last year prompted a massive search, told the interviewer Cummins paid her inappropriate compliments before cornering her in the classroom on the day he first kissed her.
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