A Tennessee teenager on Monday testified in opposition to his former trainer, Alissa McCommon, who’s accused of raping him when he was solely 12 years previous.
The boy, now 15, beforehand instructed police that whereas spending the evening on the suspect’s residence in 2021, he awoke to McCommon, now 38, sexually assaulting him.
Haywood County Common Periods Decide Jennifer Scott decided by the tip of the listening to, after listening to a few witnesses testify in opposition to the previous elementary college trainer, that there was possible trigger to maintain all the fees filed in opposition to her, together with rape of a kid, in addition to coercion, harassing and stalking the sufferer.
Media members weren’t allowed within the courtroom whereas the sufferer testified, in line with WMC.
The opposite two witnesses reportedly included a Covington Police Department officer and a Walmart worker. McCommon is accused of buying a cellphone at Walmart after her preliminary arrest, to contact the sufferer.
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“Definitely, we felt the proof went past what was essential, which is simply to show that it’s extra probably than not that we had possible trigger that she did actually commit these crimes. That’s what the choose discovered at present,” District Lawyer Common Mark Davidson instructed WMC. “We’re happy with that call and to maneuver ahead to the grand jury.”
She was initially arrested on September 8 and charged with rape of a kid. McCommon was then launched on $250,000 bond till she was rearrested on September 28 and charged with coercing, harassing and stalking the sufferer.
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The case was certain over to a grand jury, in line with Tipton County courtroom data.
The former elementary school teacher beforehand prompt that she could also be pregnant with the boy’s youngster, in cellphone calls performed aloud in courtroom final month.
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“I will elevate this child. I can do that,” McCommon can reportedly be heard saying within the recording, in line with FOX 13 Memphis.
Covington police have stated that McCommon contacted former college students on-line and engaged in inappropriate communication with them.
Her lawyer, Jere Mason of Huffman Mason PLLC, was in courtroom on Thursday and couldn’t instantly be reached for remark. Mason beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital, nonetheless, that McCommon is “a human and she or he has a household, too.”
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“And there are victims, arguably, on either side of this case, no matter her guilt or innocence,” Mason stated final month. “She’s obtained two minor youngsters herself. They’ve needed to pull them out of college, and so they’re experiencing some ridicule.”
Police are asking anybody with issues that their youngster could have been victimized by McCommon to contact the Covington Police Division CID at 901-475-1261 or the Tipton County Sheriff’s Workplace CID at 901-475-3300.
A Tennessee teenager on Monday testified in opposition to his former trainer, Alissa McCommon, who’s accused of raping him when he was solely 12 years previous.
The boy, now 15, beforehand instructed police that whereas spending the evening on the suspect’s residence in 2021, he awoke to McCommon, now 38, sexually assaulting him.
Haywood County Common Periods Decide Jennifer Scott decided by the tip of the listening to, after listening to a few witnesses testify in opposition to the previous elementary college trainer, that there was possible trigger to maintain all the fees filed in opposition to her, together with rape of a kid, in addition to coercion, harassing and stalking the sufferer.
Media members weren’t allowed within the courtroom whereas the sufferer testified, in line with WMC.
The opposite two witnesses reportedly included a Covington Police Department officer and a Walmart worker. McCommon is accused of buying a cellphone at Walmart after her preliminary arrest, to contact the sufferer.
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“Definitely, we felt the proof went past what was essential, which is simply to show that it’s extra probably than not that we had possible trigger that she did actually commit these crimes. That’s what the choose discovered at present,” District Lawyer Common Mark Davidson instructed WMC. “We’re happy with that call and to maneuver ahead to the grand jury.”
She was initially arrested on September 8 and charged with rape of a kid. McCommon was then launched on $250,000 bond till she was rearrested on September 28 and charged with coercing, harassing and stalking the sufferer.
TEACHER ACCUSED OF RAPING 12-YEAR-OLD REARRESTED FOR TELLING VICTIM HE’LL ‘REGRET DOING THIS’
The case was certain over to a grand jury, in line with Tipton County courtroom data.
The former elementary school teacher beforehand prompt that she could also be pregnant with the boy’s youngster, in cellphone calls performed aloud in courtroom final month.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER ACCUSED OF RAPING BOY SENT PICS AND TALKED SEX ONLINE: COPS
“I will elevate this child. I can do that,” McCommon can reportedly be heard saying within the recording, in line with FOX 13 Memphis.
Covington police have stated that McCommon contacted former college students on-line and engaged in inappropriate communication with them.
Her lawyer, Jere Mason of Huffman Mason PLLC, was in courtroom on Thursday and couldn’t instantly be reached for remark. Mason beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital, nonetheless, that McCommon is “a human and she or he has a household, too.”
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
“And there are victims, arguably, on either side of this case, no matter her guilt or innocence,” Mason stated final month. “She’s obtained two minor youngsters herself. They’ve needed to pull them out of college, and so they’re experiencing some ridicule.”
Police are asking anybody with issues that their youngster could have been victimized by McCommon to contact the Covington Police Division CID at 901-475-1261 or the Tipton County Sheriff’s Workplace CID at 901-475-3300.